Blood & Tears (book 3 Icefire Trilogy): Dark Fantasy Trilogy

Patty Jansen

Apr 2012 · Icefire Trilogy Book 3 · Patty Jansen

About this ebook

 Please read books 1 and 2 first. Book 1 is free.

Following the destruction of the City of Glass through an explosion of sonorics, huge numbers of refugees have descended upon the Chevakian capital Tiverius. 
The refugees are mostly members of the rebel group Brotherhood of the Light, supporters of the old royal family. They are injured, scared and hungry, and few speak Chevakian. The young Queen Jevaithi and her lover Isandor are amongst them, safe from the Eagle Knights for now. 
Young Eagle Knight Carro is waiting in an old farmhouse with his fellow Knights for the order to invade the camp, capture the Queen and deliver her back to his father, where she will continue to live as imprisoned puppet for the Knights' tyranny.
The Chevakians know none of this, and struggle to contain the refugee population, and the dangerous sonorics contamination the people have brought from their ravaged country, contamination that defies Chevakian efforts to contain it, and is getting worse, not better.
In their struggle for power, the Brotherhood and the Knights disturbed something from an ancient and magic civilisation.
The sorcerer Tandor knows what happened, but he is on death row in a Chevakian jail.
The southern woman Loriane is aware of the things that are required, but she is amongst Chevakians who can't understand her.
The Chevakian proctor Sadorius han Chevonian could put the pieces of the puzzle together, but he is struggling to keep the peace, and besides, Chevakians don't believe in magic.
Meanwhile, the massive, and malevolent, sonorics cloud drifts towards the city, hungry for revenge.

For people who like their fantasy dark and gritty. Think Joe Abercrombie, Karen Miller, Robin Hobb, George R.R. Martin.

dark fantasy, steampunk, post-apocalyptic, magic, sorcery, epic fantasy, knights, eagles, bears, dragons

Ratings and reviews

I have just read the trilogy. I only write one feedback because this was in fact only one book divided up. There was no attempt to make them properly separate. Usually you could read any one of a trilogy and it would stand alone, not necessarily well but you wouldn't feel hard done by. I don't know if this is down to the author or by putting it on by bookbub/google play. They were really good books but if someone is going to con me into buying book two first. that's when I fee aggrieved. That is because I read two first and find out how much is missing and how it doesn't make a lot of sense. If you are going to write a trilogy. put the price up and sell it as one..

This is a wonderful love story. I enjoyed the adventure of all the truly incredible characters, including the goats. It made me laugh and cry and stay up late ,to finish one more chapter. A suspenseful read. Thank you!

Like the series had a lot of suspense per book . Closer book of series should of been more detailed.

About the author

 Patty Jansen lives in Sydney, Australia, where she spends most of her time writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her story This Peaceful State of War placed first in the second quarter of the Writers of the Future contest and was published in their 27th anthology. She has also sold fiction to genre magazines such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Redstone SF and Aurealis.

Her novels (available at ebook venues) include Watcher’s Web (soft SF), The Far Horizon (middle grade SF), Charlotte’s Army (military SF) and Fire & Ice, Dust & Rain and Blood & Tears (Icefire Trilogy) (dark fantasy). Her novel Ambassador was published by Ticonderoga Publication in 2013.

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