Blurb: (From Book 1)Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild.
Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men - or worse, a company of mercenaries - against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder.
It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it.
The Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he's determined to turn a profit. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery, it's just another job. The abby is rich, the nuns are pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can't deal with.
Only it's not just a job. It's going to be a war...
Review: I feel like I did a disservice to this series by taking such long breaks between reading each book without ever re-reading, and because of that my recollection and understanding is / was pretty fractured. This was in part because I started reading the series when it wasn't completed, but also because at the end of each book I wasn't feeling very motivated to continue. The fact I finished the series means that something continued to draw me back though.
I remember enjoying reading about Gabriel / Thorn / Ota Qwan especially. I would recommend reading the first book of this series to see if you like it because I believe there's a-lot in there to enjoy and the story expands a-lot in the later books without changing style.
Something about the series as a whole didn't do it for me however, and personally aside from the first book I wouldn't recommend the entire series. Take this with a grain of salt because of the above pauses between reading, and even then the series very much skirts the recommend territory, with some fantastic world building in the series.