Phoenix Guards: The Phoenix Guards (Series #1) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from pwaites

The Phoenix Guards is set a thousand years before the events of Jhereg and is a pastiche of Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Four noble friends join the Phoenix Guards and become caught up in ongoing plots and conspiracies of the court. The Phoenix Guards is written with a framing device where it is...

from haloedrain

I've tried reading this a couple of times and bounced off because the style is so very heavy handed. The author is trying for the style and culture of the Three Musketeers, only moreso. Anything that can be said in one sentence must be said in six. That said, it was a pretty decent story once I d...

from Karlstar

In Three Musketeers style, and his own distinctive style, this is a book about a very complicated and dangerous time in the past of the Dragaeran empire, pre-Vlad. A lot of history from the Vlad series gets filled in here. At times, it goes a bit long as the characters explore parts of their pers...

from Ishpeck

With a prose that emulates the charm of eighteenth century novels while still keeping itself READABLE, Phoenix Guards is one of the most charming books ever written by human hand. Read it or suffer.

from Karlstar

In Three Musketeers style, and his own distinctive style, this is a book about a very complicated and dangerous time in the past of the Dragaeran empire, pre-Vlad. A lot of history from the Vlad series gets filled in here. At times, it goes a bit long as the characters explore parts of their pers...