The Sword Defiant

Enjoyed this book from start to finish. It really has everything: very reluctant questing, conflicted guilt ridden heroes with a heaping of self imposed duty that only serves to make them feel more guilty and conflicted, bad ass moms, vampires!!, talking swords, and soo much more!

There are so many intriguing characters in this story (kind of to the point I'd often forget who was who for a second but still great) and they all feel very flushed out background and motive wise. The couple flashbacks we get through out the story definitely help with giving them more depth as well.

My favorite characters were Bor and Alf aka The Suffer Bros. The two never meet in the story but they go along similar paths of living through the guilt and consequences of the things they've done in life. They're actually pretty heartbreaking now that I'm thinking about it