#saevus corax

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Round II

Sadie (Angus and Sadie by Cynthia Voigt)

Saevus Corax (Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead)

I know Both/Neither

Voting ended onMar 17, 2025

[ravelqueen]

OK spoilers for the first book in the Saevus Corax trilogy obviously (not that anyone cares) but I ADORE THIS MAN!!

Here he is, in the worst possible situation that he always wanted to avoid, set to be killed right as he realised that actually against all odds he doesn't want to die, enter his possibly only friend coming to rescue him and he refuses to leave, cannot conceive going until he figures out how this is actually not about anyone liking him but about self interest i.e. fitting in with guess world view

Then and only then,when things make sense, when the world works the way he thinks it does, with no one ever actually feeling any love or affection for him is he ready to take this opportunity

He's so fucked up and twisted inside and I LOVE HIM

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Round III

Sacks (Home by Nicola Davies)

Saevus Corax (Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead)

I know Both/Neither

Voting ended onMay 22, 2025

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Round I

Saevus Corax (Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead)

Sagara Sakuse (1bitheart)

I know Both/Neither

Voting ended onNov 2, 2024

[trustthechef]

Okay I still enjoyed the second Saevus Corax because the narrative style is just so fun, but I have to vent on the long lost wife and child storyline.

I was already finding it a stretch that Saevus believed his wife had died on the basis of very flimsy evidence despite the number of enemies he has and the known factor of her mother, but fine, grief, shock, and we believe the things we fear are true. Whatever.

...But in what universe does Apoina buy the story that Saevus, her up to now loving husband, has cheated on her and is trying to Kill her. Oh and not just hey-I'll-get-round-to-it trying, but eagerly desperately hunt you to the literal ends of the earth trying to kill her. And Apoina supposedly buys this story from the unimpeachable source of her insane, manipulative mother. (It's not even a clear motive Saevus could have just fucked off wherever he liked with the mistress there would have been no need to kill her.)

This is worse than a plot hole to me because to accept it as part of the story I implicitly have to accept that Apoina was apparently a gullible fucking dumbass. Which means now I'm judging Saevus for getting with her in the first place, let alone risking life and limb and liver to forcemarch across socialist cannibal utopia to find her. Like girl you can do better

And then he doesn't even See her which is presumably cause they had to keep her off camera given how do you fucking resolve that set of character traits. Ugh.

[medic981]

Big thanks to Orbit Books and NetGalley for allowing me to read this book before release in exchange for an honest review. Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead is out for sale on 3 October 2023!

KJ Parker writes another solid, humorous, medieval military fiction tale set in Parkerland. Saevus is a lot like the personality and intellect of Tyrion Lannister stuck in a world which verges on being a medieval Monty Python set.

Saevus Corax is a fun, first-person retrospective tale about a man who is looking out for himself. And if it happens that looking out for himself also helps his friends and those around him, so be it. Throughout this story, Saevus recollects his times and troubles as a battlefield recovery specialist. But his troubles don't stop there. For each obstacle, Saevus has a plan.

I enjoyed a lot about this book... the witty humor. The clever schemes and maneuvering. And the solid medieval military fantasy writing. I do enjoy how the logistics of battles really shine in Parker's writing. I look forward to seeing what other tales Saevus has yet to tell us about.

There is no magic or dragons. No wand waving saves the day, just knowledge of people and history along with self-deprecating, dry humor. Parker's protagonists can seem somewhat interchangeable, so if you have read The Siege trilogy, you'll feel right at home. There can be a bit of telling and not showing. But that can come with a fictional setting in a made-up world.

Overall, I enjoy KJ Parker's writing and storytelling abilities. Saevus Corax is a fun book with plenty of twists and turns, which reads like a Monty Python story, but the protagonist is actually clever.