He has found love twice over. He has found a family. He has a title, a fortune, and a household that would die at his word.
Why is he still not satisfied?
Because one man still breathes who stole everything from him. And that man is the most guilty of them all.
In Coralhaven, the Baron grieves a dead son and spends the mourning arranging a match for the next one. In the capital, a crown princess sworn to leave Algherand alone paces a cage her mother built, looking for the door.
Something older than the empire is clawing its way back into the light. Buried for three thousand years, waking now, and it carries a question no one has ever answered. Why was a boy left to rot in the dark, and then let out?
Algherand wants one more name. He will be asked for far more than that.
He will stand across the sand from a man who has nothing left to lose. He will climb to a place no living man has seen. And in a kingdom where he has never set foot, the past reaches back for him.
His enemies will not remain idle.
And vengeance comes at a cost.
The Earl of Dracumont III is the third book in the Earl of Dracumont series. Epic fantasy with political intrigue and hard consequences. Features multiple relationships.
This book was just average as a whole. I find myself losing interest in the MC, and the political intrigue is starting to reach Game of Thrones levels with all the infighting, backstabbing, and regicide going on.
The MC adds one to his harem, though it was painfully slow to come about. And LI 4 is made completely obvious by the end of the book, though that one also feels anti-climactic.
My biggest issues with the series (besides the MC always lighting up a cigar) is that he feels compelled to do everything himself. Delegation is not something he does. And he has a bad habit of trying to leave his LIs behind, often over their strenuous objections or outright rejection. I tend to get bored with the MC being a one-man-show, and this is starting to feel that way.
I will likely read book 4, but it will likely sit in my TBR for a bit.
These books continue to impress me. The political background, the emotions, the real-ness of the characters. There is an excellently built world in the background too that makes everything feel grounded in a way that can sometimes be missing in fantasy. Very excited to keep reading books by this author!
I love the world, the characters that the author has created and the story. I liked the first two books that I reread #2 while waiting for three. I hope that the author is as successful with the new series.
It's a pet peeve of mine when authors lobotomize their main character midway through a series. Surely there are other ways to introduce dramatic tension which don't involve MC suddenly turning into a cruel, selfish moron for no reason.
This one is hands down the best in the series so far, we finally get some payoffs and the story gets crank up a notch, I'm looking forward to the next one.