The Last Blade Priest
core novel 2023 The Holy Mountain
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (274 ratings, collected 2026-09-21) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780857669827 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Inar is Master Builder for the Kingdom of Mishig-Tenh, a man with an extraordinary feel for stone. Life has been hard since the kingdom lost its war against the League of Free Cities, and harder still since his father was found to have betrayed the king, revealing a weakness in the capital's walls, and paid the ultimate price. Now the king's terrifying chancellor and torturer-in-chief has ordered Inar to go and work for the League, and to spy for him. Far away, Anton, a Blade Priest of Craithe, the God Mountain, chosen from infancy to perform human sacrifice, is secretly relieved that the practice has been stopped, but the monstrous custodians of the Mountain demand its return, an ancient enemy has returned, an occult conspiracy is unfolding, and a vicious internal war threatens to tear his religion apart. Their paths are slow to cross, and others prove to hold more power over their world than either imagined.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Holy Mountain
- Series: The Holy Mountain core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: W. P. Wiles
Awards (verified)
- The Kitschies (Red Tentacle (Best Novel)), 2023: won
- The Kitschies (Red Tentacle (Best Novel)), 2023: won; Per the publisher's listing.
Notes
- From the series record (The Holy Mountain): An ongoing series; more entries are expected beyond these first two novels.
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 Holy Mountain: position 1 of 2: next The Dead Man's Empire (2026)
Sources
- The Last Blade Priest -- Penguin Random House
- The Dead Man's Empire -- NetGalley catalog
- https://angryrobotbooks.com/books/the-last-blade-priest/
- Penguin Books Australia (Angry Robot publisher description)
- Publishers Weekly (review)
- The Last Blade Priest -- WINNER of The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award 2023 (Amazon listing)
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