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Three Ring Circus

A Fairy Story (The King's Watch, Book 12)

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Three Ring Circus

By: Mark Hayden
Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard, Ciaran Saward
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What’s it like to live forever?

Alicia is about to find out...

Just because you don’t grow old, it doesn't mean you won’t die a violent death at the hands of your broodmates. Or the Queen who laid your egg.

From the moment she hatches in the Derwent Sídhe, Alicia is fighting. For her life. To gain position. To become an adult.
And then, the moment she drops her wings and emerges, the fun really starts.

In this new instalment of Mark Hayden’s King’s Watch series, we finally get to hear from the Fae in their own words. They’ve played a huge part in Conrad Clarke’s life, and now they’re going to be staying in his house. Alicia’s story is told from within: what’s it like to have magick in your bones? How do the Fae really feel about mortals? What does it take to climb the greasy pole when your rivals are all immortal?

Alicia is the youngest Squire in the service of Princess Faith, and she is propelled into the heart of the biggest wedding in the world of magick this century: the joining together of the Dragonslayer and his consort. No pressure, then.

She fights to get on top of a bunch of unruly hens’ hairdos and just when she thinks she’s winning, the bottom falls out of her world.

She finds herself on her own, cut off from her People, about to become snake food and with nothing but a hairbrush to protect herself. Can she make a bid for freedom?

Woven in with Alicia’s story, we get a backstage pass to some of the events glossed over in Third Eye. What really happened at the hen do? How did Lucy’s car end up in the canal? And as for Mina and the stripper...

We also check in with Conrad and Mina on their Honeymoon in Valhalla, where Mina is not a happy bride. Not at first, anyway.

So find out how Alicia copes in the mad world of the wingless, and discover how Conrad plans to deal with the Akademia and grab a copy now.

©2024 Mark Hayden and Paw Press (P)2024 Mark Hayden and Paw Press
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while this book does feel like it is a tag on book, the story is fun, gives a great insight into the Fae of The Kings Watch world and does indeed expand on the story. I just wished that it was just included as part of the last book. none of this had to be separated out.

Great addition to the series

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At the beginning of the last chapter when he opens with "If you'd like to know what happens during dinner", I thought he was going to continue with "You can find out in my next book, which is written from the point of view of a caterer at said dinner"..

That was pretty much this book. It didn't need to exist. A total break from the story, featuring a character that we didn't need to know about.
Only the last part where Conrad was featured did anything to forward the existing story.

I don't know if the author has run out of ideas, or is just trying to stretch things out. Worst book in the series by a country mile.

A book that didn't need to exist.

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I was disappointed that there was no real new story in this book. To much going back in time and filling out story about Alicia, pretty boring in my taste.

Conrads visit to Valhall

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I enjoyed Alice’s story and the found the pace and content of the book was easier to follow than some of this series. Plus it was good to spend more time with some of characters Conrad doesn’t dwell on like Rachel and Faith.

I always wish there was more Hannah but I enjoyed the perspective of Alice - it felt like a fresh view of the people and the events of the previous book.

A fun addition!

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I love the weaving of the different narratives, timelines and character plots into one cohesive story. It becomes richer by the second. It’s like looking at a theatre production from in the wings, when already you saw it from the audience perspective and just found out you missed half the performance first time round. Fantastic story and great characters again

Another great story

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