Ashley
Written on Nov 23, 2020
Super entertaining! It's like a fantasy Sherlock Holmes with pirates. The characters are fabulous – snarky, with zero fucks given attitudes.
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Buc and Eld: She’s a brilliant former street-rat, with a mind that leaps from clues to conclusions in the blink of an eye. He’s an ex-soldier, her champion and partner-in-crime. No...not in crime - in crime-solving.
In this fast-paced, action-driven, second world fantasy, the teenager and the veteran are the Holmes and Watson of a world where pirates roam the seas, mechanical engines can change the tide of battle, mages speak to each other across oceans, and earthly wealth is concentrated in the hands of a powerful few.
The Kanados Trading Company hires Buc and Eld to restore the flow of sugar - a source of power and wealth in Venice-like Servenza - from the Shattered Coast. Buc swiftly discovers that the trade routes have become the domain of a sharp-eyed pirate queen. All Buc has to do now is sink the Widowmaker's ship.
Unfortunately for Buc, the gods have other plans.
Unfortunately for them, so does Buc.
Super entertaining! It's like a fantasy Sherlock Holmes with pirates. The characters are fabulous – snarky, with zero fucks given attitudes.