The Last Blade Priest by Wp Wiles
Inar is Master Builder for the Kingdom of Mishig-Tenh. Life is hard after the Kingdom lost the war against the League of Free Cities. Doubly so since his father betrayed the King and paid the ultimate price. And now the King’s terrifying chancellor and torturer in chief has arrived and instructed Inar to go and work for the League. And to spy for him. And any builder knows you don’t put yourself between a rock and a hard place. Far away Anton, Blade Priest for Craithe, the God Mountain, is about to be caught up in a vicious internal war that will tear his religion apart. Chosen from infancy to conduct human sacrifice, he is secretly relieved that the practice has been abruptly stopped. But an ancient enemy has returned, an occult conspiracy is unfolding, and he will struggle to keep his hands clean in a world engulfed by bloodshed. In a series of constantly surprising twists and turns that take the reader through a vividly imagined and original world full of familiar tensions and surprising perspectives on old tropes, Inar and Anton find that others in their story may have more influence on their lives, on the future of the League and on their whole world than they, or the reader imagined. File Under: Fantasy [ Nightmare Crows | Scarred Altars | Broken Stone | Unlikely Elves ]
"This gripping novel demonstrates the value of thoughtful, well-planned worldbuilding"
"A novel of marvellous scope and inventiveness: fantasy is rarely as smart, immersive or scintillant as this."
"Embraces and transforms the archetypes of epic fantasy with impressive ingenuity. Vivid, vital, humane and deftly told"
"The Last Blade Priest is a refreshing, subversive and wonderfully realised fantasy novel."
"A deft and intelligent, immaculately constructed epic fantasy with characters as human as the Mountain is cold. Absolutely recommended."
"A novel of marvellous scope and inventiveness: fantasy is rarely as smart, immersive or scintillant as this."
"Embraces and transforms the archetypes of epic fantasy with impressive ingenuity. Vivid, vital, humane and deftly told"
"The Last Blade Priest is a refreshing, subversive and wonderfully realised fantasy novel."
"A deft and intelligent, immaculately constructed epic fantasy with characters as human as the Mountain is cold. Absolutely recommended."
W.P. Wiles was born in India in 1978. He is a freelance journalist and has written about everything from Pot Noodles to jumbo jets. He once spent a week trying to find a Chihuahua skeleton. He is the author of the award winning epic fantasy The Last Blade Priest (Angry Robot, 2022) and three literary novels, Care of Wooden Floors (Fourth Estate, 2012), The Way Inn (Fourth Estate, 2014), and Plume (Fourth Estate, 2019). Care of Wooden Floors was a Waterstones 11 pick and won a Betty Trask award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857669827 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857669826 |
| Title | The Last Blade Priest |
| Author | Wp Wiles |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Watkins Media Limited |
| Year published | 2022-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 520 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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