"A Knight's Tale" + "Ocean's Eleven" with a dash of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", told by an unreliable narrator with fourth wall breaks. If that's your kind of recipe, and you (like my brother) have been on the hunt for some new fantasy with no romance, read this book.

Saevus Corax is a bit of an entrepreneur. He has his own battlefield salvage business, which is exactly what it sounds like--he and his crew troll abandoned battlefields to strip the dead of any valuables before disposing of them.

This wasn't alway Saevus' job. In fact, Saevus wasn't even always his name. He's gone through a few identities, and unfortunately, they're starting to catch up with him. There's a handful of bounties on his head, and the entire kingdom has started to play a combination of capture the flag and hot potato, with Saevus as the flag slash potato.

The majority of this book is Saevus flip-flopping between schemes and playing political and religious figures against one another to try to escape various situations, only to end up in worse ones. The dry humor and satire in this cracked me up, and I had no idea where the story was going. This would be such a fun book to see adapted into a mockumentary-style movie. I'm excited to start book 2 soon!

Thank you to NetGalley, the publishers, & the author for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review.