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Originally Posted by GeoffC
I agree. The tale of Gird is a 2 part sequel which explains a few things that occur in the later time frame.
The "story" continues with a new book .... "Oath of Fealty" which is the story of Kieri Phelan as king....
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Just to be warned, Oath of Fealty is only the first part of a planned trilogy. I didn't realize that when I recently purchased/read it and was seriously disappointed by the (lack of an) ending.
The Deed of Paksenarrion is one of my favorite books. I was thrilled to get it as an ebook, because my old, huge, trade paperback copy is falling to bits.
I loved the character of Paks and how things didn't easily come to her. She had to work and had some bad luck. She also had some extraordinarily good luck, although the reasons for both are thoroughly explained by the end of the third book.
The fighting descriptions were quite vivid to me, although I am no means an expert.
I also appreciated that people died. In a mercenary company with active fighting you have to expect this, yet in many similar books, none of the core characters ever dies. Having deaths made the book more realistic and brought home the gritty reality of life in a mercenary company.
And I can only really talk about this book in hindsight, because I read the whole Deed many years ago, but I love how all the little threads and things you don't realize are important are all tied up in the end of the third book.
Addendum: One of the things that always struck me as very realistic in this book that I have hardly even seen in other books is the reusing of "common" names. Everyone knows a Michael or three and in Deed there were a couple of names that popped up more than once for unrelated characters. The ones I remember are Arņe and Rahel but there were others. Saben popped up twice too, but that was a planned plot point.
-Marcy