472 pages
English language
Published April 20, 2013 by Orbit.
The Underworld rules the city of Veldaren. Thieves, smugglers, assassins… they fear only one man.
Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves’ guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets.
Aaron is Thren’s son, trained to be heir to his father’s criminal empire. He’s cold, ruthless – everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest’s daughter from his own guild, he glimpses a world beyond piston, daggers, and the iron rule of his father.
Assassin or protector; every choice has its consequences.
The concept is good. The world and the tension of the Trifect vs. Guilds is good. But the characters are boring. Senke and Zusa were the only ones that stood out, but even then you don't really care about them. The main female characters, of which there are three, are all interchangeable. pretty much the same goes for the men too... Worth trying, but doubt I'll read the sequels.
