The Power That Binds

Devan Chronicles #2

by Mark E. Cooper, Mark Brooks (Illustrator)

Book two of The Devan Chronicles. A year on from Julia Morton’s arrival at Fortress Athione, an uneasy truce is being maintained between Deva and her enemies, but the Protectorate never rests. Believing himself destined to rule, Lord Mortain unleashes General Navarien upon the north in an effort to bypass Julia’s guardianship of Deva’s western borders. Meanwhile, having rallied the scattered forces of a dead traitor behind him, Rowton of Ascol moves ahead with his plans by murdering the King. With the King dead, and the lords vying for his throne, Julia tries to ensure the right man is chosen for the job. When things go wrong, she resorts to force, but sorcerers won’t be pushed, and soon the lightning bolts fly again over Deva.

Genres: Fantasy

396 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2003

About the author

Incursion: Merkiaari Wars 5 is out now (11/11/2016) http://www.impulsebooks.co.uk/incursion/

Mark E. Cooper lives alone in a small town in the south of England, where he writes most mornings and evenings. His background is in mechanical engineering where he spent over thirty years working for Ford. He loves reading about strong female characters and can often be found laughing to himself as he listens to a book on his iPod.

His hobbies include driving his cobra--a V12 monster he built with his best friend--reading fantasy and sci-fi, and maintaining his blog at http://www.impulsebooks.co.uk/markcoo...

He is now the author of more than eight titles in the genres he loves to read.

Reviews

[Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great series

[Shaun Carney · Rating 3 out of 5]

I should have stopped after the first book. The God's Decree was an excellent read, but thereafter, the characters start doing things never seen during their character development. Julia does things anyone in his/her right mind would not do. Why not wait for a few extra guards before leaving the palace? Why. It mind link to Lucius or Mathias before running off to get captured. There were a lot of disgruntled lords and their men all over the place, not to mention she already knew 30 Protectorate mages were running around loose in the city. And that's just one example. More bad reviews for the next two books

[Llaph]

I rather liked the first book in the series, but this book was a bit busy for me. There was a lot of head hopping and I had to re-read a few spots to see "who" was talking. I should've expected this sort of thing since the other book that I read by Cooper did the same thing, but for some reason it was easier for me to follow along in that book compared to this book.
I purchased the version with the first 3 books and put off reading the 3rd book as the 2nd book was sort of hard for me to get through and I'm hesitant about starting the 3rd book because of that.

[Saidah Gilbert · Rating 2 out of 5]

I bought the book from Kindle hoping that I wouldn't see the errors that was in an omnibus that I'd read. However, it was to no avail. So I returned the book after reading it. I find it a waste of money to have a book full of typos and grammatical errors. This review goes for all the subsequent books as well.