Blood of Assassins (The Wounded Kingdom #2) by R.J Barker

Moving on, I love the way the author portrayed the events here. His writing and world-building improved greatly.

Written by Deborah Obidah

Published on January 4, 2022

Blood of Assassins is the second book in The Wounded Kingdom. The events in this book happened five years after the first book with Girton and Merela, his master in a far-off country. They have been here after the events that happened in Maniyodioc. They had to return to their country, which had an ongoing war because Tomas, Rufra, and Aydor had claims to the throne; the three had armies supporting them.

Moving on, I love the way the author portrayed the events here. His writing and world-building improved greatly. Girton developed, he is still dependent on his master, but he has grown a lot.

Girton did things he is not proud of while away, but I’m glad that despite all this, his love and loyalty to his master and Rufra still remains.

My biggest fear for Girton is his magic, he is trying, but I don’t see him succeeding. The quote below is so sad but true about him.

“But I knew pain.
I was familiar with pain. And if pain was the ocean I was lost in, then I would take some comfort from the knowledge that I had swum these seas before.
And I had survived.
I would survive.”

Rufra is now king. He has great ideas that will make the kingdom better, and he is trying to get rid of the caste that all but ruins society, and it is working.

Aydor is the character that shocked me most in this. Forget the person you met in the previous book. He is dead and gone; he is now honorable and somewhat kind.