Never play the game without an Ace up your sleeve.
Within the House of Swords, every blade cuts deep. Usurpers and claimants attack from all sides, while the Magician’s insidious pull on Sara becomes ever more twisted and beguiling. As she struggles to strengthen her position and manage her new, unwieldy abilities, Sara discovers her greatest challenge yet: a master warrior determined to deliver the syndicate and everyone it protects to its mortal enemy.
The cards can cut both ways when you play Aces Wilde.
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 3/5
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Language - 1/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
I swear to you that this author writes so well that I feel like I’m living Sara Wilde’s life. I can feel the over arc of the series building and if it doesn’t end with a huge EXPLOSION!! I will be surprised.
The characters in this series are so vivid that I had more than once stop and remind myself that Armaeus the Magician of the Arcana Council is really just a character and I cannot go and whoop his butt on behalf Sara. Not that she can’t fight her own fights, but still…geez. What a jerk. I will backpedal a little here, however, because without Armaeus, there would be no one that I would love to hate.
Sara is dealt with some pretty serious self thinking issues in this book. Is she really the one meant to do the bloody hand to hand fighting in this war to save the Connected children or would she do more good actually taking care of the Connected children like Father Jerome? She also has the House of Swords to manage. Is she really supposed to be the leader of this House of the minor Arcana? The Council tells her something, Father Jerome begs her to reconsider her place in the war and Armaeus is just aloof and seemingly uncaring. But is he…really?