It feels like a romance where the central relationship is a friendship between mid-aged men. I really love the book and recommend it to anyone looking for a soft, friendly book. The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul follows after The Return of Fitzroy Angursell, but may be read on its own. The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard is an epic length (900 pages) fantasy novel on the friendship and retirement of the Last Emperor. There’s respectable, after all, and then there’s respectable. A middle-class tribesman from a proverbially remote province of the Empire, Cliopher Mdang. She’s not very upset when she finds one or two of her old friends and it turns out the adventure is much more likely to involve a plot to kidnap the Last Emperor of Astandalas. Exciting developments for fans of HANDS OF THE EMPEROR: the sequel is now up for early preorder on my website (links below) Cliopher is impatiently awaiting his lords return when adventure quite literally hits him from behind. Buy a copy of The Hands of the Emperor book by Victoria Goddard. She expects her sabbatical to be a decorous, respectable sort of adventure, the kind with which she can regale her colleagues in the Senior Common Room upon her return. You never know when adventure will come calling. She still keeps the sword sharp, of course. She fights folly and injustice as fiercely as ever-although, as a respected scholar of history at one of the Circle Schools of Alinor, she now tends to use her tongue and pen more than her sword. Pali Avramapul may not have gone under her own name since the dissolution of the Red Company, but she is no myth, and has certainly not faded. A dozen or so years after that cataclysm, they have almost faded into myth. Before the Fall of the Empire of Astandalas, the Red Company was legendary.
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