{"id":4098,"date":"2025-09-16T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:31:00","slug":"book-review-assassin-royale-by-richard-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4098","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Assassin Royale by Richard Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Assassin Royale<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by Richard Davis<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Fantasy \/ Epic<\/p>\n

ISBN: <\/strong>9798985186147<\/p>\n

Print Length:<\/strong> 271 pages<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>An epic fantasy that wields great power and even greater action<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Killian Lord might be the best assassin you\u2019ll ever read. He\u2019s smart, conniving, strong, quick, and is connected to animals. He has only one life. But boy can he save it.<\/p>\n

In this first book of what looks like an explosive action fantasy series, Lord is tasked by King Ember to protect their world. See, an evil king has sent his own skilled knight, Maximillian Durandal, to retrieve the Moonlight Shard. It\u2019s in pieces, but he gathers all of them up and sutures them together with the souls of royalty and exceptional people. In the hands of the evil King Globe\u2014or even just Durandal\u2014the Moonlight Shard would make a sword powerful enough to end Lord\u2019s world as he knows it.<\/p>\n

Assassin Royale<\/em> is a story of incredible conquests, fast-paced action, and a jaw-dropping lead character. Lord can\u2019t be stopped. He won\u2019t be. Even in the face of death time and time again, he proves himself as exactly the right man for this seemingly impossible job. If you\u2019re coming for the battles and fight scenes, you\u2019re leaving satisfied and then some.<\/p>\n

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While this is undoubtedly Lord\u2019s story, it\u2019s peppered with great side characters. Lord\u2019s horse Bolt takes an early lead as this reviewer\u2019s favorite animal character of the year. I couldn\u2019t help but lavish in the image of Bolt\u2019s magnificent movement as he races to Lord\u2019s aid, telling Lord that he\u2019ll save him, that he\u2019ll do anything for him. The loyalty is sky-high. Vivian is a powerful and seductive goddess who controls thunder and lightning; Uglash the orc is a blundering ball of mass; Durandal might be as skilled as Lord, but meaner.<\/p>\n

Assassin Royale<\/em> gets us acquainted and comfortable at an even-keel pace for the first half of the novel. Lord lingers around enemy lines and must work undercover to figure out the best tactic to take down Durandal and retrieve the Shard. The second half of the novel ramps up the action big-time. It\u2019s like one page we\u2019re in the before times\u2014and then we\u2019re swung into a frenzy of the after. Page after page of sword fights, magic, and the dangling possibility of death. This could be good news for fantasy fans with a hankering for action, but it could also make some readers wishing we could slow back down for a second.<\/p>\n

The women of the novel are powerful and seductive, but their descriptions and motivations can be too often tied to their sexuality. I longed for more out of Vivian especially since she\u2019s so objectively impressive.<\/p>\n

Assassin Royale<\/em> is filled with vivid fight scenes and powerful characters. The emphasis on the movement\u2014the things that happen\u2014drives the pace forward with abandon, and the stakes are on a never-ending incline. The King\u2019s Dark Blade series looks like it\u2019s going to be an epic creation.<\/p>\n

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Assassin Royale by Richard Davis Genre: Fantasy \/ Epic ISBN: 9798985186147 Print Length: 271 pages Amazon Reviewed by Toni Woodruff An epic fantasy that wields great power and even greater action Killian Lord might be the best assassin you\u2019ll ever read. He\u2019s smart, conniving, strong, quick, and is connected to animals. He has only one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookreviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}