Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone is on sale for
$2.99 until July 3.
DRM-free, since it's a Tor book.
Kobo coupons are valid for it, so you can get it even cheaper.
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This is the second novel in the Craft Sequence. I have read the first book,
Three Parts Dead, and really liked it. I don't think you have to have read that one in order to get into this one, since it's set earlier, and involves different places and characters.
In this setting, magic, and gods' power, is governed by arcane laws and contracts. Magic users are basically lawyer necromancers (or is it necromancer lawyers?), who know how to navigate all that bureaucracy and exploit loopholes.
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In Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc–casual gambler and professional risk manager–to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, Crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him.
But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to worry about when he discovers that his father–the last priest of the old gods and leader of the True Quechal terrorists–has broken into his home and is wanted in connection to the attacks on the water supply.
From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and chance, as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They sleep on water, they dance in fire…and all the while the Twin Serpents slumbering beneath the earth are stirring, and they are hungry.
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