Snake Heart
Chains of Honor, Book 2
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4.5 • 22 Ratings
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- £3.49
Publisher Description
Tasked with an impossible mission, hunted by the very people he wants to protect, Yanko White Fox is the only one who can save his nation from famine and anarchy. Armed only with his fledgling skills as a wizard and accompanied by allies he’s not sure he can trust, he must track down an ancient relic before his enemies find it first. But countless obstacles stand in the way, including his mother. The deadly and infamous pirate Snake Heart cares nothing for the family—or the son—she abandoned, and wants the artifact for herself.
Customer Reviews
Yanko's battles with warrior mages and assassins continue
I received a free ARC of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
Yanko's bildungsroman continues. Yanko, his one-eyed 'bodyguard' Dak, light-fingered Lakeo and Arayevo (Yanko's former babysitter and current subject of his unrequited love) are travelling with a bunch of pirates looking for an island where a former museum thief left his hoard of stolen artifacts, including a lodestone which is rumoured to lead the way to a forgotten land. Yanks has defeated the warrior mage Sun Dragon with the assistance of a kraken but Yanko is scared that Sun Dragon will catch up with the pirates and try to kill him again. Although Sun Dragon is not a current threat, Yanko's mother the warrior mage Snake Heart Pey Lu is leading a rival group of pirates in search of the treasure. Oh, and if that isn't enough, Sun Dragon has sent a mage hunter assassin to kill Yanko!
Lindsay Buroker has written another great novel in this series. Yanko is such a likeable character in his desire to do the right thing and not harm others, he even shies away from killing the assassin that tried to kill him! He feels inadequate against the magic skills of Pey Lu and Sun Dragon, the fighting skills of Dak and Lakeo, heck he even feels inadequate compared to Arayevo. But the reader knows that Yanko is destined for better things, he just needs to grow into his magic.
In this book Yanko also gets the chance to speak with his mother and find out more about why she left her husband and children to become a pirate. He also finds out who Dak really is (it's a doozy).
Whereas in the last book we had a kraken, in this book we have magical constructs, killer kelp, lost continents, a flugnugstica, fireballs, pirates, a magical rock and TWO warrior mages. This series reminds of some of my favourite series: the Narnia books and David Edding's Belgariad, Can't wait for the next book!
Beware, there's sort of a cliff-hanger.