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 Oathbreakers (Vows and Honor Book 02) by Mercedes Lackey |
Description: When Idra, leader of the crack mercenaries known as the Sunhawks, failed to return from a journey to her home kingdom of Rethwellan, Tarma and Kethry, warrior and mage, set out in search of their vanished leader. Sisters of sword and spell, their fates bound together by a Goddess-sworn oath, they were eternally pledged to fight the forces of evil. And evil had indeed cast its shadow over Rethwellan. Idra, so they were told, had left long ago on a search for a legendary magical sword which could reveal which of her two brothers was meant to become the new king. With the princess gone, her younger brother had been branded an outlaw and her older brother had claimed the throne. Both instinct and mage lore told Kethry and Tarma that all was not as it seemed, that both Idra and her people were in terrible jeopardy. Yet would their Goddess-given powers, aided by those of a Herald of Valdemar, proves strong enough to break the dark enchantment possessing this land? Buy From: |
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The second book in the Vows and Honor series finds Tarma and Kethry, warrior and mage in the SunHawks, a mercenary company. There they learn a bit more about command and how to delegate.
The book doesn’t cover a lot of their life in the Sun Hawks, just enough to get them established and give a foundation for the next part of the story. In all a good way to structure a book.
This book is not like the first one where it felt like the book was basically a lot of short stories strung together. In this one there is only one story and as the book progresses they both gain in skill and experience.
I liked this book better than the first one. For some reason I rarely like reading short stories or anthologies. So this book was a lot of fun and more to my taste. Although I have read the book a couple of times before it was still interesting enough for me to read it completely in one sitting.
The book explains how Tarma and Kethry managed to get a grant for land that they required to setup their school and why the monarchy of Rethwellan was indebted to the two of them (That becomes important later in the series)
Final recommendation: A good read.