Bladesong
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3.8 • 45 Ratings
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- $2.99
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Publisher Description
Troubadour Estela will do whatever it takes to rescue the knight she loves — but will her brave actions seal his fate? She embarks on a perilous journey to the Holy Land in this enthralling historical epic set in 1151. Book 2 of the multi-award-winning epic Historical Fiction series The Troubadours Quartet.
'Wonderful. If you love historical adventure and romance, you must pick up this series!' Autumn Birt, The Rise of the Fifth Order
1151: the Holy Land, where one book is worth more than a man's life Imprisoned in Damascus, Dragonetz suffers the mind games inflicted by his anonymous enemies, as he is forced to remember the traumatic events of the crusade, two years earlier. His military prowess is as valuable and dangerous to the balance of power as the priceless Torah he has to deliver to Jerusalem, and the key players want Dragonetz riding with them - or dead.
Instead of remaining safely at home, Estela is desperate to rescue Dragonetz at all costs. She sets out for the Holy Land, never realising that the person she thinks will be her knight's saviour might actually be his doom. Can Estela get him out alive, despite Nur-ad-Din, the Muslim Atabeg; Mélisende, the Queen of Jerusalem; and an avenger from the past? Will she still want to, when she knows what they've done to him?
Once more, 'the master of historical intrigue' whirls the reader off into medieval mayhem. Jean Gill's details of crusading strategy and riding a camel are as convincing as the pangs of medieval childbirth. She brought medieval France to life in Song at Dawn; now she adds 12th century Damascus and Jerusalem with equal aplomb.
'A Masterpiece. A Historical Feast.' C M T Stibbe
Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice
Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction
Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards, HNS Indie Awards and the Chaucer Awards
Discovered Diamond Award
5* 'I like my historical romance heavy on the history, light on the romance, with a strong cupful of action and adventure thrown in. When an author can get all of the elements in exactly the right proportions, we are probably talking bestseller. In Bladesong we have a bestseller.' Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite
Customer Reviews
Incredibly disappointing second book in series
I loved Song at Dawn so much that I was expecting to similarly love this book. It was an incredible swing and a miss to me. I honestly think that readers who loved the first book would be better served by reading a short synopsis of this book (as some things happen that you will need to know) and then just moving on to the next book in the series.
[More details follow **with spoilers**] The thing I found the most difficult in this book was how Estela was written as extraordinarily gullible. With the way the story was written, I simply did not believe that the Estela of the previous book and of earlier in this book would fall for the web of lies that ensnared her and it didn’t take long after she did before I was skimming or skipping nearly every scene that included her. And then that she never figured out she had been ensnared in the web of lies, and no one told her, honestly made me wish I had a physical book so I could throw it across the room in disgust.