Torius Vin is perfectly happy with his life as a pirate captain, sailing the Inner Sea with a bold crew of buccaneers and Celeste, his snake-bodied navigator and one true love. Yet all that changes when his sometime friend Vreva Jhafae—a high-powered courtesan and abolitionist spy in the slaver stronghold of Okeno—draws him into her shadowy network of secret agents. Caught between the slavers he hates and a navy that sees him as a criminal, can Torius continue to choose the path of piracy? Or will he sign on as a privateer, bringing freedom to others—at the price of his own?
From critically acclaimed author Chris A. Jackson comes a fantastical tale of love, espionage, and high-seas adventure, set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
400-page mass market paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-664-5
ePub ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-665-2
Chris, I missed a chance to meet you at age con 2 years ago and tell you that your first pathfinder tales book was then tied for first place for my favorite in the line. Now you have two of my top 4 books. I love how the characters are true to the groundwork laid down in the first book.
I like the twists, and I like the split views. Usually, if there are multiple stories going on at once, I will decide I like one better, and skim the others... That was not so here all of the stories were equally compelling and thought provoking.
If that isn't enough praise, I read the entire book tonight in one sitting, and I felt the need to come post a 5star review at 2am as soon as I finished...
To speak of the emotional torque within this novel would be an understatement to it, to call it a roller coaster the same, this story was a tempest that almost tore me apart. Like the previous story a core feature of this one is a relationship, that of Vreva the spy and an Inquisitor hired to hunt her down, more than one type of cat and mouse is played about with these two, and it is beautiful, it is tear inducing, it is maddening, it is quite possibly one of the most well written relationships I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
Not to leave out Torius and the rest of the Stargazers though, there here too! And righteous wrath ensues when you turn your blade upon slavers, even moreso when they've hurt you and the ones you care about.
Man F+%& OKENO, that place has single handedly become my most hated place upon all of Golarion.
Moved discussion here out of the Nightblade thread.
Chris A. Jackson wrote:
Itchy wrote:
-Pirate's Honor?
I'm not sure on that last one. See above about that being a foggy period of time...
Well, if you're still fuzzy on that one, catch up quickly. Pirate's Promise will be out in December!
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I know! I was actually fuzzy about whether I read Pirate's Honor during the sleep deprived fugue that I existed in for the first 6 months of my daughter's life, or if I read it before then.
What I KNOW for SURE is that I have loaned Pirate's Honor out to multiple folks as one of the "introduction to Pathfinder Tales" books. I enjoyed it that much! Sooooooo... I am eagerly anticipating getting this book in my dishwater-soaked hands!
I am so far behind on my Pathfinder Tales novels (and every other series I read) but I just started Pirates Honor. I am excited to know that there is more Torius and Celeste waiting for me around my birthday. Guess I better hurry.
I received the first book in the series as a Con gift. I read it in one sitting yesterday (and am on a intravenous coffee this morning as a result). I am happy that my body will be recovered by the time the next novel releases!
I finished reading this book this morning. For no reason, I woke up at 3:30AM. I got children back into bed that ALSO woke up at 3:30AM for no particular reason. When I couldn't get back to sleep, I read until the book was done 2 minutes before my alarm went off.
This book was very good. I will work on getting a review written and posted tonight. Well done, Mr. Chris Jackson. Well done.
Yeah, this was really good. I thought it was very well-built and the story did a great job of putting all the major characters through the wringer. The stakes really felt like they mattered and the outcome was far from certain -- and that's a hard trick to pull off within the constraints of a continuing series!
Top-tier Tales for me, can't wait to see what the crew gets up to next. :)
Just finished it in less than 24 hours...which I have not done with a book in a long time(though it helped it was a Friday night so it was not like I had work or anything.)
But my compliments to Chris Jackson for a great novel one I am certain to read again. Can't wait till the next one.
....Well....I can see I'll be in the minority here but - no. Didn't like it. Couldn't, in fact, finish it. Just like "Pirates Honour" actually. I thought the writing was flat & the characterisation two dimensional. Boring, to be blunt. "Pirates Promise" will be part of the VERY short list of Pathfinder novels I've purchased (all of them, thus far) that will be headed towards the 2nd hand bookstore.
A question to Chris, if Torius or any of the rest of the crew to find a stowaway, what would they do with him/her ?
How does the crew of the Stargazer go about recruiting new members who won't cause any issues with Celeste ?
Hmm...I suppose that would depend on the stowaway. They're not so heartless as to simply throw a stowaway overboard, and circumstances would certainly enter into the decision whether or not the person was put ashore at the first convenient port, taken to someplace safe, or taken on as one of the crew. Nothing is impossible, but if said stowaway turns out to be a soul-eating demon from the Abyss in the form of a harmless looking, doe-eyed halfling waif...well that would be an entirely different dilemma...
A question to Chris, if Torius or any of the rest of the crew to find a stowaway, what would they do with him/her ?
How does the crew of the Stargazer go about recruiting new members who won't cause any issues with Celeste ?
Hmm...I suppose that would depend on the stowaway. They're not so heartless as to simply throw a stowaway overboard, and circumstances would certainly enter into the decision whether or not the person was put ashore at the first convenient port, taken to someplace safe, or taken on as one of the crew. Nothing is impossible, but if said stowaway turns out to be a soul-eating demon from the Abyss in the form of a harmless looking, doe-eyed halfling waif...well that would be an entirely different dilemma...