Brian's Book Blog

Second part of The Cycle of Arawn

Several years have passed since the end of book 1, and Dante and his friend Blays are smuggling arms to the Norren, a group of people who are treated as slaves by the rest of civilisation.

After things escalate out of control, a war is started and there's plenty of battle scenes.
Dante keeps finding out things his magic can do, usually just in the nick of time to save them from disaster.
As in book 1, they seem to go from disaster to disaster with "humorous" banter keeping them going.
A better read than the first, but you still don't really care about any of the characters, and the banter starts to grate after the first few chapters.

The only part that was (unintentionally?) funny was when one of the people they met was said to have a "ho" over their fireplace. It wasn't disclosed what the man's wife thought about that...