{"id":288,"date":"2010-10-28T01:27:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T01:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/10\/28\/books-received-102710\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:36","slug":"books-received-102710","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/10\/28\/books-received-102710\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 10\/27\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51WyeKC70YL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cardinals-Blades-Pierre-Pevel\/dp\/1616142456\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1288228154&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Cardinal&#8217;s Blades<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Pierre Pevel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to seventeenth-century Paris, where intrigue, duels, and spies are rife and Cardinal Richelieu&#8217;s agents may be prevailed upon to risk life and limb in the name of France at a moment&#8217;s notice. And with war on the horizon, the defense of the nation has never been more pressing.<br \/>\nDanger is rising from the south&#8211;an insidious plot that could end with a huge dragon-shaped shadow falling over France, a shadow cast by dragons quite unlike the pet dragonets that roam the cities like stray cats, or the tame wyverns men ride like horses, high over the Parisian rooftops. These dragons and their descendants are ancient, terrible, and powerful &#8230; and their plans contain little room for the lives or freedom of puny humans.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Richelieu has nowhere else to turn; Captain La Fargue and his elite group of agents, the Cardinal&#8217;s Blades, must turn the tide. They must hold the deadly Black Claw cult at bay, root out traitors to the crown, rescue prisoners, and fulfill their mission for the Cardinal, for their country, but above all for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s death or victory. And the victory has never been less certain.<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dreamfever-Fever-Karen-Marie-Moning\/dp\/0440244404\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1288228478&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Dreamfever: The Fever Series<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Karen Marie Moning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They may have stolen my past, but I\u2019ll never let them take my future.<\/p>\n<p>When the walls between Man and Fae come crashing down, freeing the insatiable, immortal Unseelie from their icy prison, MacKayla Lane is caught in a deadly trap. Captured by the Fae Lord Master, she is left with no memory of who or what she is: the only sidhe-seer alive who can track the Sinsar Dubh, a book of arcane black magic that holds the key to controlling both worlds. <\/p>\n<p>Clawing her way back from oblivion is only the first step Mac must take down a perilous path, from the battle-filled streets of Dublin to the treacherous politics of an ancient, secret sect, through the tangled lies of men who claim to be her allies into the illusory world of the Fae themselves, where nothing is as it seems\u2014and Mac is forced to face a soul-shattering truth. <\/p>\n<p>Who do you trust when you can\u2019t even trust yourself? <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51NygDmhXSL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tracato-Trial-Blood-Steel-Book\/dp\/1616142448\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1288228793&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tracato<\/span> (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Trial of Blood &amp;amp; Steel, Book III<\/span>)<\/a><br \/>\nby Joel Shepherd<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For two hundred years Tracato has been the center of enlightenment, as the serrin have occupied human lands and sought to remake humanity anew. But the serrin have not destroyed Rhodaan&#8217;s feudal families entirely, and as Tracato faces the greatest threat to its survival in two centuries, old rivalries are stirring. Sasha must assist her mentor Kessligh to strengthen the Tracato Nasi-Keth, yet with one royal sister siding with the feudalists and another soon to be married to Tracato&#8217;s most powerful foe, her loyalties are agonizingly divided.<br \/>\nWorse still, from Sasha&#8217;s homeland the Army of Lenayin are marching to make war upon Tracato. Can she fight her own people? Or must she join them, and fight not only her lover Errollyn, but to extinguish the brightest light of hope in all the land&#8211;serrin civilization itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. The Cardinal&#8217;s Blades by Pierre Pevel Promo copy: Welcome to seventeenth-century Paris, where intrigue, duels, and spies are rife and Cardinal Richelieu&#8217;s agents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/10\/28\/books-received-102710\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/10\/28\/books-received-102710\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Books received 10\/27\/10 - The Geek Curmudgeon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. 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