But succeeding will mean doing things that go against his nature-such as killing people. If he fails, the Avenians and their pirate allies will destroy Carthya. But what he really needs to do is destroy the pirates before they can join forces with his country’s most powerful enemy. Using his knowledge of where Carthya’s royal treasure is hidden, he offers the pirates a chance to stage the heist of a lifetime. This time Jaron goes undercover as a thief who wants to join up with the very band of pirates that was supposed to murder him four years ago. In the second book of the Ascendance trilogy, the young king must run away from his kingdom in order to save it from an imminent threat of invasion. Now he has returned to claim his throne, just when his country’s aggressive neighbors are poised to strike at any sign of weakness. After convincing an ambitious nobleman he was the best impostor for a long-lost prince, Jaron proved to be the real prince after all-supposedly killed by pirates, but lying low in the guise of a street urchin. Jaron, alias Sage, proved to be more than as advertised in The False Prince. Agent: Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary Agency. As in the earlier book, Nielsen tells an exciting, breakneck tale, and Jaron remains an entertainingly surly antihero however, while the villains are certainly evil enough, they are perhaps too easily manipulated by the young king. Unfortunately, by refusing to take advice from anyone, Jaron manages to insult most of the people who are actually loyal to him. Jaron, as headstrong and sure of himself as ever (not to mention a terminal smartass), concocts a wild plan to singlehandedly defeat the wicked pirate king Devlin. Although older and supposedly wiser than him, they refuse to believe the evidence that Carthya is about to be attacked by the neighboring kingdom of Avenia, which has made an alliance with the deadly pirates of Tarblade Bay. In this solid sequel to The False Prince (2012), newly crowned King Jaron of Carthya, once a poor orphan known as Sage, must flee the kingdom he has just inherited in order to escape both would-be assassins and the misguided control of his incompetent regents.
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