If this is still not enough to convince you to spend the credit, I will just leave this here: C S Pacat has written very elegant sex scenes. Overall, Prince’s Gambit is that unicorn of a middle book – it is better than the first and TBH my favourite of the Trilogy! It has a strong plot with intrigue that is intricate without convolution characters are developed foreshadowing is delicious the stellar pacing keeps a relentless push forward and the writing here is flawless. It so refreshing when gender is well represented and then presented as a non-issue in an MM centric story. Thankfully, Mr Davies’ brings so much to life that you cannot help but see it and then just enjoy yourself! Shifting gears, there are multiple females visible in every layer of society! 💫 Best of all, not only do they have independent agency but they are also pivotal to the plot. Roland scored one victory, keeping the rebels from winning in a single blow, but the war is far from over. The rebels struck and the planet fell into civil war.

to launch a desperate military gambit to win a war against a rebel force. Roland - once Crown Prince of Earth, now a Marine Auxiliary was charged with building an army to stabilise New Doncaster. Wonderfully, the narrator gets it and conveys it pitch perfectly! Aside from this, Stephen Bel Davies’ work on inflections and considered pauses wonderfully hint at people, moments, or even throwaway dialogue that have pay offs! A lot of the story is shown rather than told so that we too can assess what is going on because, dear readers, Damen is an unreliable narrator. Roland - once Crown Prince of Earth, now a Marine Auxiliary - was charged with. The book's more hopeful tone is with its humour written in clever turns of phrasing or the use of repetition.

🎧 Where Captive Prince is dark focusing on the debauchery of human nature, Prince’s Gambit has human virtue beginning to check and challenge cruelty and human vices.

The prince's gambit