Bloody Rose
core novel 2018 The Band
Record
| First published | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.16 (26,114 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 512 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316362535 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Bloody Rose, the second novel in The Band, is set about six years after the events of Kings of the Wyld, in a world where mercenary bands, once wandering fighters for hire, now perform monster battles in arenas for paying audiences rather than venturing out on true bounty missions. Tam Hashford, tired of her routine job at her local pub, auditions to become the bard for Fable, the most famous band of mercenaries in the business, by performing a song written by her own mother, and to her surprise is accepted. Fable is led by the notorious warrior known as Bloody Rose, and Tam's new life as the band's bard and narrator takes her on a tour of performances and engagements that mixes the group's public spectacle with the real dangers still lurking beneath its arena-fighting reputation.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Band
- Series: The Band core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Nicholas Eames
Notes
- From the series record (The Band): The founding two novels of a comic sword-and-sorcery trilogy about a retired band of monster-hunting mercenaries; a third novel, Outlaw Empire, has been announced but not yet published, so it is not catalogued here per this project's standing rule against unpublished works.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Band: position 2 of 2: previous Kings of the Wyld (2017)
Sources
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