Review: "Traitor's Blade" by Sebastien de Castell

First, props for having a really cool name. If that's a pen name, I wish I'd thought of it.

I've been wanting to read this book since I saw it in B&N last Christmas, but ever since I overdrafted my bank account month I bought a Kindle (damn you, one-click!), I am on a very strict book-budget. So, I wrote down the title and looked for it in the library instead.

It was not at the library. Despite requests the library did not buy it. I returned to B&N to buy it only to find that they no longer had a copy. (Note: yes, I know I could buy it on Amazon but, for reasons stated in above paragraph, I am no longer allowed to buy books on Amazon).

Finally, after a particularly hard month, a tall, handsome man took me to the bookstore to cheer me up and bought me a copy. Then he got annoyed when I finished it that night. "You only play with your presents once," he always complains.

Not so. I am definitely going to reread "Traitor's Blade," and I am going to buy the sequel in hardback, because I don't feel that Sebastien is getting the hype he deserves.

What makes "Traitor's Blade" so awesome? Think about everything that makes "The Three Muskiteers" so great--charming handsome dudes, humorous banter, bro-love, and swash-buckling. Now write it in modern English and add magic, even tragic-er backstory, a main character that is the voice of reason except for when he's going beserk, and a 'bloody-faced Saint of Swords.'

For those of you who haven't had their one-click privileges revoked, please give it a read:

http://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Blade-Sebastien-Castell/dp/1623654009