{"id":14219,"date":"2021-04-20T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=14219"},"modified":"2024-03-12T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T23:36:26","slug":"paladins-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14219","title":{"rendered":"Paladin’s Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paladin’s Grace<\/a><\/em> (2020) T. Kingfisher<\/a> (The Saint of Steel)<\/p>\n

\"Paladin's<\/a>Stephen was a paladin for the Saint of Steel until that god died, and all his paladins went mad.<\/p>\n

The remaining seven paladins now serve the Rat, in gratitude for taking them in and giving them some purpose. <\/p>\n

The Rat\u2019s priests fixed things that could be fixed, and when things were broken past all mending, they helped people pick up the pieces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But their god is still dead, and the berserker tide is still within them.<\/p>\n

Grace is a perfume. She arrived in the city with nothing, and built up a business, and now she has been requested to create a perfume for the visiting prince.<\/p>\n

Leather, metal, gingerbread. Soap. Warm skin. It had been a good scent. And there was just no way to reproduce it. You couldn\u2019t distill skin. <\/p>\n

Well, maybe you could, but the authorities would frown on it<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First and foremost, I adore Stephen.<\/p>\n

He wished that he could break out his knitting, but for some reason, people didn\u2019t take you seriously as a warrior when you were knitting. He\u2019d never figured out why. Making socks required four or five double-ended bone needles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stephen and all the other paladins.<\/p>\n

\u201cIstvhan, you ever kill someone with an ice swan?\u201d he whispered. <\/p>\n

\u201cI clubbed someone unconscious with a frozen goose once. That\u2019s similar?\u201d <\/p>\n

The Bishop suffered a mysterious coughing fit. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, you had to use the goose as a bludgeon, didn\u2019t you? For the swan, I figure you\u2019d snap the head off and try to stab with the neck.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHmmm\u2026\u201d Istvhan eyed the ice sculpture speculatively. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty big. And not well balanced.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI figure you\u2019d have to go two-handed with it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019d grab one of the candelabras instead. Some of those are nice and heavy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFar too unwieldy. I could take you apart with the ice swan while you were still trying to get the candelabra off the ground.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How could I not love that?<\/p>\n

I adored the world building: the paladins, Beartongue the bishop, the perfumery, and the paladins.<\/p>\n

Stephen sighed and took refuge in ritual. \u201cShrive me, brother, for my heart is heavy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a romance here, between Grace and Stephen, but I found that the least interesting part of the story. <\/p>\n

I definitely wanted more time with the paladins. And Beartongue. And Zale, solicitor-sacrosanct from the Temple of the Rat.<\/p>\n

Publisher : Red Wombat Studio
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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