There’s Tamas, the spearhead of the revolution and the most powerful powder mage alive. There seemed very little consistency throughout the whole thing and the deeper the book dug into the magic system the less sense it made and the more frustrating it got. Privileged are special magic users who can do all sorts of things… but they need special gloves to do it or they’re harmless? So is it the people or the gloves that are magical? Black powder isn’t naturally occurring, it’s made by mixing substances together so what is it that is actually fueling the Powder Mages abilities? And why can they only manipulate bullets? And sometimes Privileged could swat entire armies with a click of their fingers, and other times they couldn’t do a damned thing about a guy with a bayonet. It sounds cool as shit on the surface, but the deeper the book dug into it, and the more it tried to explain the rules of the various schools of magic, the more it all just fell apart. Look, here’s the thing about the magic system. And there are Powder Mages who have the ability to consume black powder to make themselves superhuman, and also burn black powder to influence bullets after they have been fired, and also just explode black powder at will. Knacked are those with special abilities such as never needing to sleep, or having an eidetic memory, or being able to tell when someone is lying. There are Privileged, who are all round sorcerers. We’re also quickly introduced to the magic system. We join the story amid a revolution ageing general (and very angry man) Tamas overthrows the monarchy and the aristocracy, and plants himself at the head of the country. Promise of Blood starts with a bang and I must admit I really enjoyed it at the start. A book about manly men being angry at things!
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