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Title: Bloodlines

Subtitle: A Crown of Blood and Honour, Book 2

Author: T. K. Roxborogh

Narrator: Napoleon Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An epic tale of love, loss and revenge set amidst the turmoil of Scotland after Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The rebellion is over, Scotland has its rightful king, and the battlefields lie still - for now. Fleance, son of Banquo, has brought a new dawn to Scotland, and in the process become a very different man from the lowly huntsman who rode north to save his country.

A generation has passed since Macbeth, but still there are evil forces at work across the land. Civil war is imminent, and there are traitors at the castle gates. The witches who foresaw Fleance's rise to power are watching and scheming once again. And there is turmoil, too, within the king's own soul: urged to marry a princess and strengthen his claim to the throne, he must choose between Rachel, of royal bloodline, and his first love, Rosie, whom he left behind.

With the rebels circling and his crown starting to slip, the time has come for Fleance to prove that Scotland is in his heart as well as in his blood.

Members Reviews:

Good reading...

Good read, kept me interested, my only frustration was the hanging cliff ending to the book, now must await the third in the series.

Five Stars

GOOD READ

It could have been better, but the author repeated and repeated and went ...

It was alright. It could have been better, but the author repeated and repeated and went back over pass events which for me, in my way of thinking, the author doesn't have much to say so he or she goes over the same grounds or they describe a character over an over again.

I stared skipping pages and then gave up and went to the last two chapters to end my misery.

Not for me

too simple of a read & not very interesting

Great sequel to Banquo's Son

(Thank you NetGalley for an early release copy)

Bloodline's picks up where "Banquo's Son" left off. Fleance is now King of Scotland, his friend Duncan having been knocked off in book 1 by by a crossbolt meant for Fleance. (If you haven't yet read "Banquo's Son", you need to stop reading this review and read that book first!).

Fleance wants to be a good king, and in a move very unusual for his time, Fleance reaches out to his subjects to hear their complaints and actually helps them. But there are forces working against him, some of which (or perhaps I should say whom) would just as soon see him dead. And then there's the fact that he needs a queen; he'd prefer that it be Rosie, but the lovely Rachel is a much better choice politically (and a pretty great catch at that).

Without going into detail, Fleance's need to be good and do good ends up with him getting into some pretty hairy pickles: war, treachery, kidnapping, you name it, he has to face it down.

Bloodlines is a good sequel to "Banquo's Son", and judging by how it ends, there will be another book in the works. I hope so, and I will happily read it when it comes out.