CLOAK GAMES: TRUTH CHAIN now available!
I’m pleased to report that CLOAK GAMES: TRUTH CHAIN is now available at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, Amazon Australia, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, Google Play, and Smashwords.
Click here to read the first chapter of CLOAK GAMES: TRUTH CHAIN.
Nadia Moran’s luck has run out at last.
The High Queen’s Inquisition is coming for her, led by the Lord Inquisitor himself. Desperate and trapped, Nadia has no choice but to cut a deal.
Nadia is a master thief, and even the Lord Inquisitor needs things stolen.
But the price of Nadia’s freedom might destroy her utterly…
It’s been available on Amazon for days and I read it days ago. I can hardly remember that far back. 🙂
Good typo checking on your part. I only noticed a couple and it’s so few that it seems pointless for me to go back and do a typo check (I’ll send you the couple I found at some point).
There were some questions I had about the overall plot though. Those questions would be spoilers, so what medium should I use to create those questions? Post on this thread, a different thread, email, or something else?
I usually like to announce it on the blog once it’s available on all vendors, and it took a while this time.
Go ahead and post any questions on this thread below. I’ll put a big SPOILER WARNING on the comment.
WARNING! SPOILERS ON ALL COMMENTS BELOW!
Question 1: I was struck during the raid on Castomyr, that while Nadia was effective, she still didn’t seem as effective as a couple of legions of human wizards would’ve been. Nadia is (was) a very good thief, not a warrior. Why didn’t Arvalaeon just deploy a couple of wizard legions as warriors instead of going through all of the trouble of training Nadia and now basically unleashing a powerful, dangerous, and likely unstable human on the world?
Question 2: In fact, why didn’t the Queen just nuke Castomyr? Wouldn’t a small tactical nuke do the job?
Question 3: Towards the end of what I lovingly call “Nadia’s ‘Groundhog Day’ in Hell” she finally defeats all of the wolves and bugs and anthrophages (much to her own surprise). But instead of just doing it again and then avoiding the cytospawn and waltzing into the cathedral to work on the window, she instead does something else (with radios, bombs, etc.) which she practices for decades more. Why?
Good questions!
1.) Two reasons. For one, Arvalaeon wanted to stop Castomyr with as little as loss of life as possible. If he had asked the High Queen for the Wizard’s Legion, they probably would have won the fight, but a lot of them would have been killed. It would have been way more effective just to Cloak and shoot Castomyr in the head, which was what Nadia was more or less able to do, and which was why Arvalaeon chose her, since she knew how to Cloak.
The second reason is that Arvalaeon suspects he’s going to need Nadia’s help to deal with some incoming problems down the road.
2.) That was the fallback option. If Arvalaeon had called and asked the High Queen would have done it. But that would have killed a lot of people and Arvalaeon wanted to avoid that.
3.) Because no matter how powerful she got and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t get rid of all the anthrophages in the cathedral, and if she Cloaked past them, the anthrophages rushed her and killed her before she could break the window. What she needed was a way to keep to the anthrophages away from her while she blasted through the window, which was why she blew up the truck in the cathedral. She was pretty systematic about testing and preparing all parts of the plan, which was why it took so long.
Re 3: So when she states “They were all dead because I had killed them [‘anthrophages and wraithwolves’] all” there were still more alive ones in the cathedral?
Oh yeah. And loads more in the tunnels.
Ok. Cool. Thanks for the answers.
I wonder if other readers might be helped by a well placed sentence here and there addressing those questions in a later revision of the book might be helpful?
That’s a good idea. Once TOMB HOWL comes along I think I’ll do that. Thanks!