Book Overview
For fans of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and Glen Cook's Garrett PI novels, comes the newest installment in Alex Bledsoe's Eddie LaCrosse series, He Drank and Saw the Spider . After he fails to save a stranger from being mauled to death by a bear, a young mercenary is saddled with the baby girl the man died to protect. He leaves her with a kindly shepherd family and goes on with his violent life. Now, sixteen years later, that young mercenary has grown up to become cynical sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse. When his vacation travels bring him back to that same part of the world, he can't resist trying to discover what has become of the mysterious infant. He finds that the child, now a lovely young teenager named Isadora, is at the center of complicated web of intrigue involving two feuding kings, a smitten prince, a powerful sorceress, an inhuman monster, and long-buried secrets too shocking to imagine. And once again she needs his help. They say a spider in your cup will poison you, but only if you see it. Eddie, helped by his smart, resourceful girlfriend Liz, must look through the dregs of the past to find the truth about the present--and risk what might happen if he, too, sees the spider.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0765334143
ISBN13:9780765334145
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:Tor Books
Length:317 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Fast-paced with marvelous phrasing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 8 years ago
This is clearly an adventure book; the protagonist a sword-for-hire whose gradual growth over the series is a lot of fun to read. He of course has the requisite mysterious past -and this book begins to delve into it.
Something I love about Bledsoe as an author, however, is that each of the Eddie LaCrosse books are perfectly adequate as stand-alone.
This book, in fact, was the first one I read! And I went out immediately to track down the others, but never felt that I missed out by reading them 'out of order'.
It contains some violence, some adult language, and grapples with moral nuances, but does so without preaching.
My very favorite part of the book is Eddie's voice. His phrasing is so colorful and vivid, and best of all it doesn't utilize worn-out metaphors to do so; there's an originality that makes me laugh out loud when I expected to be biting my lip in tension. It's utterly refreshing.
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