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Short and Sweet – May 2023

Hello and welcome to the May 2023 Short and Sweet roundup here on Track of Words, where I’ve chosen three more recent reads to talk about. This instalment is very much a set of twos: I’ve gone for the second book in a fantasy duology, the second novel in a science fiction trilogy, and the second part of a Black Library duology. I didn’t set out to pick all these book twos, I promise – it just happened that way! As always, these are books that I want to make sure I talk about, but which for one reason or another I don’t have the time or headspace to cover in a full standalone review.

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The Black Hawks – David Wragg

Book one of the two-part Articles of Faith series, David Wragg’s action packed and foul-mouthed The Black Hawks gleefully tramples over genre norms to deliver a fun new perspective on the fantasy quest story. Vedren Chel is neither heroic nor especially capable, and he would much rather be back home than in Denirnas, fetching and carrying for his step-uncle. When the city is attacked, however, he finds himself in the accidental service of the young, somewhat pitiful Prince Tarfel, and in the disreputable company of a band of mercenaries calling themselves the Black Hawks. If he can keep Tarfel alive long enough to deliver him safely into the hands of the mercenaries’ suspiciously vague employers, Chel might just be able to go home, but in order to do that he has to evade vengeful agents of the church and survive wolves, cannibals and all manner of other dangers.

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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: David Wragg Talks The Righteous

Welcome to this Track of Words Author Interview, where today I’m joined by David Wragg to chat about his new novel The Righteous, the sequel to The Black Hawks and the second part of his Articles of Faith series. I’ve just read The Black Hawks and had a lot of fun with it (keep an eye out for a review coming soon), so I’m really looking forward to reading the sequel, which is out on the 10th June from Harper Voyager. If you like your fantasy novels full of the usual action and adventure but erring on the more humorous side rather than all-out dark fantasy, this series should definitely be on your radar!

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