{"id":26549,"date":"2026-04-13T14:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=26549"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:46:32","slug":"a-power-unbound-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/26549","title":{"rendered":"A Power Unbound"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Power Unbound<\/em><\/a> (2023) Freya Marske<\/a> (The Last Binding #3)<\/p>\n

\"ASet in England in 1909<\/p>\n

Jack felt old and tired. Giving combat orders to young people while heavy with fatigue was like reaching for a guidekeeper: another habit he\u2019d fallen easily back into. <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t like it any more than the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alanzo Rossi, Alan Ross, was in Jack\u2019s five-day experience of him a pitch-dark room scattered with mousetraps. Almost any topic of conversation could become a fight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alan\u2019s fine-tuned nerves told him that there was no real threat in this conversation. They were tossing a grenade back and forth, each of them pretending that it was primed to explode, but it wasn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alan Ross was a sharp, careful Londoner with an employable accent, who just happened to turn a nice burnished colour in the sun. Alanzo Rossi now existed only under this roof, with these people. So yes: Alanzo Rossi slipped into Italian when he could, if only to savour the feel of it in his mouth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: John Frederick Charles Alston, Alan Ross\/ Alanzo Cesare Rossi, Edwin John Courcey, Robert Harold Blyth, Maud Blyth, Violet Anne Debenham, Miss Adelaide Harita Morrissey, Mrs. Catherine Kitty Amrit Kaur, Bella, Tom, Emily, Dick, Carolina, Elsie Leonora Mary Alston, George Bastoke, Freddy Oliver, Walter Courcey., Lady Enid Blackwood Taverner, James Taverner, Pete Manning, Maria Rossi, Berto, Mr. Blake, Mary Bastoke Alston Countess of Cheetham, Helen Bernard, Assemblymen Cowling, Assemblymen Manraj Singh, Deputy Chief Minister Richard Prest, Randall Kenyon, Mr. Alec Fawcett, the Grimm of Gloucester, Dufay, Charles Walcott, Arthur Manning, Seraphina Vaughn, Margaret Oliver<\/p>\n

Cover by Will Staehle<\/p>\n

Publisher: Tordotcom<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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