Algernon (Darth Anyan)'s Reviews > Saint's Blood

[7/10]

Someone want to tell me what a 'Cogneri' is before I kill my first one?

Tristia is a land infested by secret societies, and it's up to our resilient three musketeers / Greatcoats to unmask yet another 'end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it' plot in this third installment of a great swashbuckling adventure.
After taking on the powerful Dukes and their armies in the first volume, and secret assassins/ninjas/spies in the second one, Falcio and his friends are confronted by a plague on the very Gods of Tristia. Somebody is murdering them, starting at the bottom of the food chain with the half-human, half-godly Saints, and working their way up to the big Six Uber Gods.

A 'Cogneri' is a sort of Inquisitor, another quasi-secret organization that comes into play and may be either enemies or allies for the Greatcoats. Or both. But they're not the only new players on the game board:

Did you know, it turns out there's a word for us? 'Inlaudati' : the Unrecognized. It's not an especially grand name, I grant you, but I suppose that's because our nature is to remain hidden.

By this third novel in the series, I've become more than a little blase about Falcio, Kest and Brasti overcoming impossible odds with bravado and snarky dialogue. The series is a great page-turner, but it is also becoming repetitive and, it turns out, easily forgettable. (I'm writing this scant review about half a year after I read the damn book).
Nevertheless, I look forward to another escape from reality with (thankfully) the last book of the Greatcoats adventure.