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Buy the Book • He Drank, and Saw the Spider on Jan 14 2014 Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Magic
Pages: 320
Format: eBook
Source: NetGalley
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For fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and Glen Cook's Garrett PI novels, comes the newest installment in Alex Bledsoe’s Eddie LaCrosse series, He Drank and Saw the Spider.
After he fails to save a stranger from being mauled to death by a bear, a young mercenary is saddled with the baby girl the man died to protect. He leaves her with a kindly shepherd family and goes on with his violent life.
Now, sixteen years later, that young mercenary has grown up to become cynical sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse. When his vacation travels bring him back to that same part of the world, he can’t resist trying to discover what has become of the mysterious infant.
He finds that the child, now a lovely young teenager named Isadora, is at the center of complicated web of intrigue involving two feuding kings, a smitten prince, a powerful sorceress, an inhuman monster, and long-buried secrets too shocking to imagine. And once again she needs his help.
They say a spider in your cup will poison you, but only if you see it. Eddie, helped by his smart, resourceful girlfriend Liz, must look through the dregs of the past to find the truth about the present—and risk what might happen if he, too, sees the spider.
This is the 2nd book I read with Alex Bledsoes’ Eddie LaCrosse, and I liked this one as much as the first. In this story we see more of Eddies’ past and what has made him the man he is. The interaction between Eddie and his girl Liz are often humorous, they really seem to be perfect for each other. The rest of the characters in this story are also very colorful, from the prince and the king who are there and pretending to be normal every day people. To the big huge spy who is pretending to be the princes’ companion. For the most part I think that almost all of the main characters, besides Eddie and Liz, are actually pretending to be something they aren’t even if they don’t realize it. The story is fast moving, with romance, adventure sword fights and fist fights thrown in for good measure. I liked the fact that even when Eddie didn’t have to do anything, he stuck around and tried to do his best to help the little baby he found many years ago and gave to a shepherd family to raise as their own. Now that Isadora is a grown teen and needs his help again he is there to solve the mystery to save this young girls life. That says something about the character I think, and this is one of those characters that I look forward to reading his next adventure.
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