Booklog 44/2024: K.J. Parker: Saevus Corax Captures the Castle – Saevus Corax #2

[jacey]

In the second Saevus Corax book K.J. Parker (Tom Holt under another name) gets Saevus into even deeper hot water. Saevus and his crew of battlefield scavengers  do capture the castle (though not by conventional methods) however they find an old frenemy, Stauracia, inside and the plot thickens. What value does the castle hold? There's no treasure and its military position is negligable. Saevus’s evil mother-in-law is up to her neck in manipulating Saevus who sets off through enemy territory (where foreigners are eaten) to find his estranged wife. As you might guess, things don’t go smoothly. The tome of this book is absolutely delicious, quirky as you might expect from Tom Holt. I immediately grabbed the third one and am reading it now.