Just superb. A fantasy version of the Peaky Blinders

Like many of you, I hunt and hunt for something new and refreshing in this genre. The first three books are brilliant.
Father Thomas is a wonderfully gritty character surrounded by some almost as good ones. The world building is great, the description visceral and I can’t wait for the final chapter.
Peter McLean should take a bow, as should narrator, David Morley Hale.
It really deserves more reviews….

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Rough medieval styled reflections

Good around storyline, well performed. Credible imagination and engaging. Recommended if one like this style.

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Bloody and brilliant

All of the stars again, the plot continues with more twists and turns taken at a break neck pace. Strong f/f romance subplot is continued and I am looking forward to the conclusion

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Bloody Excellent.

In our Lady's name this is hotting up nicely to bring this amazing series to an explosive ending. Absolutely bloody brilliant, Priest Of Gallows is the third book in the War For The Rose Throne series and damn was it good, it was frigging awesome. Peter McLean's storytelling is beautiful, the intensity, the drama, the political machines with it's twist and turns will have you reading this in one sitting. For the life of me, I couldn’t put it down, the characters are just so captivating, especially the ones that you would love to hate and see swinging on the end of a Gibbet. I've read some excellent series this year, but this one is turning out to be my absolute favourite. A page turner from start to finish. The previous books were excellent but this topped them. I'm a 100 Pages into Priest Of Crowns already and will be very sad to see such an excellent series come to a conclusion. From the streets of Ellinburg, to the aristocracy of Dannsburg
Tomas Piety has everything he ever wanted. In public he's a wealthy, highly respected businessman, happily married to a beautiful woman and governor of his home city of Ellinburg. He has been called to Dannsburg by the house of law, home of the Queens Men to serve, but a very dangerous game is being played in the capital and Tomas Piety has come to play bringing with him his second Bloody Ann, Billy the Boy and the weeping women, his swords Remorse and Mercy. Let the political games begin. I can't highly recommend this gritty dark epic fantasy enough to all you fantasy lovers out there, check it out, you won't regret it...😁🖤💥🔥🥃🥃🥃

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Oh my Grimdarkness

Whoa, Peter is such an amazing author, he fills these bleak evil books with such humanity and humour. Look if you liked the first two, buy this and you won't regret it. if you haven't.... buy the first one, I'll wait, do it now.

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Dark, gritty, excellent. Can't wait for book four

Priest of Gallows follows on from the first two books in the series incredibly well. McLean doesn't simply rest on his laurels with all the stuff he has set up thus far, he expands upon it. Book three gives us a far deeper look into the inner workings of the Queen's Men, the special service type organisation that Thomas Piety found himself drafted into previously.

As a Queen's Man, Thomas has carte blanche to go where he pleases and to do as he pleases. With the freedom of the kingdom at his fingertips, Thomas discovers he's no great fan of the dastardly things he's expected to do now risen to the ranks of the Queen's Men proper. And this coming from a hardened gangster, no less.

Characters new and old are built and expanded upon in expert ways, even those that don't appear in this book for more than a short period feel as though they have grown immensely. Concepts already laid out are built upon; such as the cunning (McLean's magic system), the political set-up of the kingdom and the history that led to the world being as Thomas Piety currently knows it.

For those of you reading this review and wondering what on earth this series is about, a good way of describing it is as a fantasy gang-based series. Its dark, bloody, gritty and full of such painful situations that it makes you wince at the thought of them. If you've seen the show 'Peaky Blinders', and enjoyed it, chances are you'll love this series and all that goes into it. If not, and you just love a bit of dark fantasy, pick book one up and see if it takes your fancy.

As far as book three's go, I think McLean has nailed this one to the point of perfection. It would have been incredibly easy to write a filler novel just to rake in those ££s, but the author has obviously gone above and beyond with this and it has me seriously excited for book four. So many big things happened throughout the course of this novel that I just know book four will pack some serious wallop to it.

David Morley Hale's narration was wonderful. His northern accent suits Thomas Piety down to a tee. Zero complaints as far as the performance goes from me. I can really visualise things when Morley Hale talks of them, so top marks for that. The emotion he puts into the conversation parts is something that other narrators could learn from. So many just read the words put in front of them, narrators like Morley Hale bring said words to life.

I'm not certain, but I think book four might be the final book. If so, I'd be curious to see where McLean goes next. Regardless of wherever that may be, he's certainly an author that's going to be on my 'must buy' list going forward.

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Not that Pious!

Another tale of Tomas Piety and his amoral journey into politics in the very grim, very dark workd that Peter McLean has crafted so superbly, listening to this you cam imagine what awful place to live it would, my only complaint is that Mr McLean constantly repeats the same sentences again and again, after the first 20 times it loses its novelty

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