Cameron, a pseudonymous author of historical fiction, packs this thick volume with enough magic, violence, and intrigue for three books, flavoring the story with period detail and earthy dialogue. The abbess of Lissen Carak reluctantly hires the Red Knight and his group of mercenaries to defend the abbey, but she isn’t sure which is worse: the Wild forces, or the mercenaries’ threats to her nuns’ virtue. Beyond those walls men are prey - vulnerable to the exceptionally powerful and. Within men's walls life is civilised, the peace punctuated by tournaments, politicking, courtly love and canny business. Normally the Wild are powerful, semi-intelligent animals and magical beings without direction or discipline, but a rogue sorcerer named Thorn is summoning the Wild to fight the forces of church and law and sees taking the fortress nunnery Lissen Carak as the first step in overrunning the kingdom. Man lives in pockets of civilisation claimed from The Wild. This is one of those series that’s so often recommended to me by many fantasy readers, but I have always found the works of Miles Cameron, a pseudonym for Christian Cameron, to be quite intimidating to go start. A medieval Europe threatened by the chaos and magic of Wild creatures turns to two dubious civilizing forces: the church and bands of cutthroat knights for hire. The Red Knight is the first book in The Traitor Son Cycle by Miles Cameron. sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Fans of hefty adventure epics will enjoy this dense, intricately plotted historical fantasy debut, which launches the Traitor Son Cycle. Books by Miles Cameron (Author of The Red Knight) Books by Miles Cameron Miles Cameron Average rating 4.21 55,329 ratings 3,648 reviews shelved 140,931 times Showing 18 distinct works.
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