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The Jaguar Knights (King's Blades) Review"The Jaguar Knights" is the sixth book in Dave Duncan's "King's Blades" series (it can also be said it is the third book of the second King's Blades trilogy). "The Jaguar Knights" is set in the land of Chivial. A "Blade" is a master swordsman who is magically "bonded" to the King, and this forces unwavering loyalty to the wishes of the King. One of King Athelgar's Blades is a man named Wolf. Wolf is one of the best of the Blades, but is in the bad graces of the King. They share a mutual dislike and disgust of each other. When the King learns of a massacre at a fortress that was supposedly impregnable, he sends Wolf to investigate. This is no simple massacre, however (if a massacre can ever be simple). The invaders slew several Blades, which is exceedingly difficult for anyone who is not another Blade. The invaders also captured the wife of the man in charge of the fortress, but to complicate matters this woman was the former mistress of the King and also has a past with Wolf. Wolf's main motivation, other than doing his job, is that his brother Lynx, also a Blade, was wounded at the massacre.
With Wolf comes an Inquisitor of the Dark Chamber who is pursuing her own investigation. Blades and Inquisitors seldom see eye to eye and had a mutual distrust of each other. When they arrive at Quondom castle, they learn something disturbing: the invaders may not have been completely human. The invaders appear to be part human, part beast, and it is these "monsters" which have taken the King's former Mistress. Further investigation points across the ocean, and Wolf and The Inquisitor are still on the trail.
Not being familiar at all with the other works of Dave Duncan and the King's Blades, I was unsure how much I would be missing by reading this sixth volume first. While I can't be positive about this, not having read the other volumes, but "The Jaguar Knights" stands on its own and can be easily read without knowing anything else about the series or Chivial. I believe there are little bits about different characters and events that will enrich the experience for the informed reader, but my enjoyment was not lessened by trying to figure out who everyone was and how this all fit together.
The beginning to "The Jaguar Knights" was a little slow and I spent time trying to figure out who Wolf is and what exactly a Blade is, and what "bonding" is, but as the novel continued, everything was explained in enough detail to understand the story, the background (to an extent) and get the story moving. At the point that Wolf and the Inquisitor are paired up is when Dave Duncan hooked me on his story. It also helps that Dave Duncan did an excellent job writing this novel and took it in a direction that surprised me at several turns. My high praise is that after reading this book I want to go back and read the rest of the King's Blades series. Duncan is unsparing in what he puts his characters through, and that is something I appreciate.
-Joe SherryThe Jaguar Knights (King's Blades) Overview

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