Creators: Liked **'LIKE GAME OF THRONES IN AN INDIAN UNIVERSE' DAN JONES** THE HOUSE OF THE DRAGON MEETS SUCCESSION IN AN EPIC REIMAGINING OF THE MAHABHARATA 'An unforgettable wild journey set in re-imagined Vedic India' SF Book Review 'Like Game of Thrones in an Indian alternative universe... exhilarating... heralds the arrival of a special new talent' Dan Jones 'Mahabharata imbued with A Song of Ice and Fire, The First Law, & Malazan Book of the Fallen' Novel Notions SOME BALLADS ARE INKED IN BLOOD Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the Mathuran Republic simmers on the brink of oblivion. Senator Krishna and his third wife Satyabhama have put their plans in motion, both within and beyond the Republic's blood-soaked borders, to protect it from total annihilation. But they are soon to discover that neither gold nor alliances last forever – and that they are not the only players on the board. Mati, Pirate-Princess of Kalinga, has decided to mend her ways and become a good wife. But old habits die hard, especially when one habitually uses murder to settle old scores. Brooding and beautiful Karna hopes to bury his brutal past, but finds that destiny is a miser when it comes to granting second chances. Hero-turned-torturer Shakuni limps through a path of daggers. Meanwhile, his foes and woes multiply, leaving little time for vengeance. Their lives are about to become yet more difficult, as a cast of sinister queens, naive kings, pious assassins and ravenous priests are converging where the Son of Darkness is prophesied to rise... even as forgotten Gods prepare to play their hand.
LikedI liked it I give I give it four stars it was entertaining read I feel like it was frustrating to me because it felt like it had all these makings of a five-star story to me just something that was in rapturing and but it had some like glaring faults to it that was hard for me to get around
LovedI loved how it kind of took these epic fantasy tropes but then made it very dark, quite gritty, made the characters feel realistic.
MixedSo, I will say I was a bit underwhelmed by this book because I was hoping for a really grim dark experience, but if I hadn't known it was grim dark, I don't think I would have been as harsh on this book. I actually thought it was very well drawn. It is very epic in scale.
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