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The Kingdom of Liars
A Fantasy Novel by Nick Martell
Book 1 of the The Legacy of the Mercenary King Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Political Fantasy,
- Rebellion,
- Court Intrigue,
- Memory Magic,
- Reluctant Hero
This book is for you if you're into...
- Magic systems where every spell costs a piece of memory
- Court intrigue with rebels, gunfights, and dangerous alliances
- Protagonists haunted by family disgrace and buried secrets
A story of secrets, rebellion, and murder is shattering the Hollows, where magic costs memory to use, and only the son of the kingdom's despised traitor holds the truth.
Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king's nine-year-old son, by his father David Kingman. Ten years later, Michael lives a hardscrabble life with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor royals in a weak attempt at striking back at the world that rejects him and his family.
In a world where memory is the coin that pays for magic, Michael knows something is there in the hot white emptiness of his mind. So when the opportunity arrives to get folded back into court, via the most politically dangerous member of the kingdom's royal council, Michael takes it, desperate to find a way back to his past.
He discovers a royal family that is spiraling into a self-serving dictatorship as gun-wielding rebels clash with magically trained militia. What the truth holds is a set of shocking revelations that will completely change the Hollows, if Michael and his friends and family can survive long enough to see it.
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