Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel) [2021, PDF/EPUB, ENG]

by T Kingfisher

(3,272 ratings)
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He's a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She's a nun from a secretive order, on the trail of the raiders who burned her convent and kidnapped her sisters.


When their paths cross at the point of a sword, Istvhan and Clara will be pitched headlong into each other's quests, facing off against enemies both living and dead. But Clara has a secret that could jeopardize the growing trust between them, a secret that will lead them to the gladiatorial pits of a corrupt city, and beyond...

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Book details


  • Retail price : from $33.49
  • Author : T Kingfisher
  • Publisher : Argyll Productions
  • Published : 02-27-2021
  • Language : English
  • Pages : 438
  • ISBN-10 : 1614505306
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1614505303
  • Reader Reviews : 3,272 (4.6)

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About the Author


T Kingfisher


T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Coyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections.

This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about elves and goblins.

When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies.

www.redwombatstudio.com

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Reader Reviews

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Kim
kept me up
Reviewed in Canada on 11-30-2022
How dare. Years since I’ve been kept up by a book. The characters - a delight. The plot entertaining. I rarely laugh out loud while reading and yet here I am disturbing the sane sleeping person next to me at 2 am with soundless chuckles shaking the bed. Thank you. I have no regrets - yet. Asking me again at 6 when my alarm goes off. FYI: yes you should read it.
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Anne Marie Azimi
Move over JK Rowling and welcome T Kingfisher as a welcome story teller!
Reviewed in the United States on 03-02-2023
This was just one of the many warm, well written, and extremely humorous books by this wonderful author. She knows her stuff! She is a wordsmith extraordinaire weaving a story in another time and place with all kinds of magical creatures and landscapes. Anyone who loves Harry Potter and others of that genre will love and welcome T. Kingfisher, her books are a piece of great luck for the reader..
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K. Bird Lincoln
Istvan and Clara's story goes on the road battling the strange smooth men
Reviewed in the United States on 04-03-2021
Istvhan the berserker, ex-Paladin (his god, the Saint of Steel, who used to focus his berserker anger at the evil died, so now he's just a dangerous warrior) gets his story in this second book of the series. Istvhan and Galen have been sent on a quest to trace the source of the strange, pottery-headed monsters who were biting off people's heads in the first book.

Their journey takes them on the road where he encounters a nun, or lay sister as she keeps insisting, of the order of St. Ursa. Her sisters have all been kidnapped and she's on a quest to track them down and get them back.

Istvhan and Clara find commonality in each other both in their protectiveness and their strengths. This book is far more action-oriented and rooted in multiple political parties than the first book, showing a stronger sense of the world, but also getting a tad confusing/bogged down in the details sometimes.

However, our paladins are quippy and earnest as ever, and Clara satisfyingly active as well. She's not about to give up her quest, nor martyr herself because of her secret, but she convincingly opens herself to the possiblity of love (although the fraught moment when Istvhan confesses his love and she answers 'that's nice' is a hoot).

I got a little confused about necromancers and the clay headed guys. It seems that Galen gets sent off at the end to look further into something I thought they'd resolved--but I was confused (thus the minus of a star, or probably half a star).

I continue to be in love with the Temple of the Rat. Here we get to see an overwhelmed temple in a busy city that echoes the woes of modern day life. We also get to see Istvhan battle as a gladiator as well as confront his fear of water.

I do hope Kingfisher does write Galen's story as this series is such a comforting, alternate fantasy read with really engaging characters (even if all the paladins are a bit similar in my book) with some imaginative bad guys.
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