The story of Three Parts Dead revolves around the death of a god named Kos. All of these books can be read in pretty much any order with no major issues of spoilers even though some of the characters do overlap! Now back to the main attraction. Book 2 is titled Two Serpents Rise, second published and second chronologically, Book 3 is titled Full Fathom Five and you get the point. Even though Three Parts Dead is the first published book in the Craft Sequence, it takes place third chronologically in the series. Let me say right off the bat that even the names of all of Max Gladstone titles is just a hint at the creative genius he is. Are you intrigued so far? Let us take a deep dive into this gem. Three Parts Dead combines two of the most unlikely and polar opposite subjects for a fantasy novel: Law and Magic, but Max Gladstone makes it work.
All of these accolades are just the icing on the cake when it comes to the fantastic world, magic system, characters, creatures, and Gods Max Gladstone has created.
He’s been twice nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer award, and nominated for the XYZZY and Lambda Awards. Welcome to the wonderful mind of Max Gladstone as we enter through the portal of his Craft Sequence universe with his debut novel Three Parts Dead. When Tara and Abelard discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb’s courts – and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumb’s slim hope of survival. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead god, who’s having an understandable crisis of faith. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Without Him, the metropolis’s steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart.
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