The Ruby Knight (Elenium Series #2) Book

The Ruby Knight is the second book in the Elenium and follows Sparhawk on the quest to obtain the magical artefact known as the Bhelliom in order to save the life of the Queen Ehlana who has been poisoned by rival contenders to the throne who themselves are pawns in a bigger plot! :D

As in The Diamond Throne the pace of the book is relentless as again in The Diamond Throne, which set up the world and events at it were depicted prior to the events in the Elenium, the heroes now have a target and a mission which turns The Ruby Knight into a bit of a on the road fantasy book! :D This again takes the series in a different route to the previous book giving our characters plenty of opportunity to encounter new and strange lands on their quest! :D

And also gives us a chance to see another site our characters as they pay a visit to various medical professionals for example and end up having to recruit help in a less than heroic fashion! But this also gets show the levels that they are willing to go to in order to accomplish their goals! This takes home away from any issues with clichés and goes on to illustrate that the characters are very three-dimensional in that we also get to see, as they will, the multiple solutions to the difficulties they encounter in other parts of the book that they come across them! :D

Throughout the book we will to get to see many more of the peoples of as a travel through and also we get some more information on the Troll gods and what their motivations are as well as the Elder Gods and how characters like flute and all of them interact! We also get to see how all the knightly orders work together and what some of the differences between them are some of them are a little bit more straightlaced than others! :D Plus there is also more insight into how the political structures in this world work which the participants are partaking in a very enthusiastic fashion throughout! :D

Throughout there is much humour with little one-liners that you will often have to take a double look as you are reading along and they are thrown in so randomly that you barely registered on the first time until you see the other characters reactions and this makes for a much funnier road trip through the various lands which makes the perfect set for the action scenes which are end of the seat stuff! :D The action scenes themselves have a brutal efficiency to them when the characters about are plotting to embark on them are calmly plotting the dismemberment of their opposition! :D

The Ruby Knight is fast-paced, gripping, funny edge of the seat stuff that will keep you up late with one more chapter syndrome as you try to get everything before you certainly go to bed and you will certainly want to have the sequel to hand Seda plunge straight into it as there are many mysteries left at the end! :D

Brilliant stuff and highly recommended! :D