Booklog 13/2023: Peter McLean: Priest of Lies – War for the Rose Throne #2

[jacey]

Thomas Piety, ex soldier, army priest, mob boss of the Pious Men, and now reluctant employee of the Queen’s Men is married to Ailsa, though it’s all a sham as his wife is his handler, a spy, and a Queen’s Man herself. Favourite characters from the first book are still in there: Bloody Anne, Thomas’s second, Billy the Boy. There’s magic and a lot of blood and death. In this book the action moves from the streets of Ellinburg to the capital where the wealthy and influential are equally as dangerous as thugs with sharp weapons. It’s been hailed as Peaky Blinders with Swords, and that’s possibly close to accurate.