A review on the back of the first book describes the series as a cross between The Three Musketeers and Game of Thrones and I would completely agree. It has action, it has fantastic characters and it has an easy, yet interesting plot.

It is pretty much everything I look for in a book. I am going to start by saying that, quite simply, I loved this series. This review is going to be split into two parts: a non-spoiler-y general review of my feelings towards the books and then a more in depth review which will include major plot points so if you don’t want to know what happens, don’t read that part. Book three, takes it a step further when someone starts killing gods and saints before book four finally concludes with a threat from another country and problems closer to home. Book two deals with what happens next trying to unite a country behind a new ruler when the country doesn’t really want that to happen. The story focuses, and is written in the first person viewpoint of, on Falcio val Mond the First Cantor of the Greatcoats and his friends Kest and Brasti as they attempt to restore order to Tristia.īefore King Paelis was deposed and executed he gave orders to each of the Greatcoats and in Falcio’s case it was to find his “charoites” and this is the focus of book one. Set in the country of Tristia, the story commences five years after the Dukes and Duchesses of the country overthrew the King and turned the Greatcoat’s into traitors. The Greatcoat’s series, by Sebastien de Castell, consists of four books: Traitor’s Blade, Knight’s Shadow, Saint’s Blood and Tyrants Throne.

Tyrant's Throne by Sebastien de Castell