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Boston, 1769: Ethan Kaille, a Boston thieftaker who uses his conjuring to catch criminals, has snared villains and defeated magic that would have daunted a lesser man. What starts out as a mysterious phenomenon that has local ministers confused becomes something far more serious.
A ruthless, extremely powerful conjurer seeks to wake the souls of the dead to wreak a terrible revenge on all who oppose him. Kaille's minister friends have been helpless to stop crimes against their church. Graves have been desecrated in a bizarre, ritualistic way. Equally disturbing are reports of recently deceased citizens of Boston reappearing as grotesquely disfigured shades, seemingly having been disturbed from their eternal rest, and now frightening those who had been nearest to them in life. But most personally troubling to Kaille is a terrible waning of his ability to conjure. He knows all these are related...but how?
When Ethan discovers the source of this trouble, he realizes that his conjure powers and those of his friends will not be enough to stop a madman from becoming all-powerful. But somehow, using his wits, his powers, and every other resource he can muster, Ethan must thwart the monster's terrible plan and restore the restless souls of the dead to the peace of the grave. Let the battle for souls begin in A Plunder of Souls, the third, stand-alone novel in Jackson's acclaimed Thieftaker series.
A Plunder of Souls (The Thieftaker Chronicles), by D. B. Jackson- Amazon Sales Rank: #764161 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-10
- Released on: 2015-11-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.16" h x .91" w x 6.12" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
From Booklist In this third Thieftaker book, conjurer Ethan Kaille investigates a series of grave desecrations in pre-Revolutionary Boston. At first believing the disturbances to be the work of resurrectionists, paid to procure corpses for both medical research and spell work, Ethan soon notices a pattern: the corpses are missing their heads, right hands, and three toes, and each corpse is marked with a strange symbol. Reports of hauntings also correspond with the recently disturbed graves, while the city’s conjurers, Ethan included, sense their own power dwindling. The souls of the dead are being used to steal power, and Ethan thinks an old enemy is responsible. Ethan’s moral reluctance for violence makes him likable, though the frequent beatings he sustains as a result grow tiresome, and the danger is undercut by his magical healing. However, the story benefits when the magic Ethan relies on no longer comes easy, forcing him and his rivals to cooperate to use magic effectively. Jackson’s attention to period detail, portraying Boston in 1769 as a powder keg on the verge of explosion, provides extra tension in this enjoyable historical fantasy. --Krista Hutley
Review "This engaging third entry in Jackson’s Thieftaker series ably mashes up the historical with the fantastic."―Publishers Weekly
About the Author
D. B. JACKSON was born in one of the thirteen colonies and now lives in Tennessee. A Plunder of Souls is his third novel in the Thieftaker series.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. An Otherworldly And Fascinating Boston By John D. Cofield Boston in 1769 was a city on the edge of an explosion. British redcoat soldiers patrolled the streets, angry mobs made up of unemployed young men often jeered and threw stones at them, and the majority of the population kept their heads down and attempted to survive in an increasingly tense environment. D.B. Jackson's new novel, the third in the The Thieftaker Chronicles, does an excellent job of recapturing that combustible atmosphere, with the additional spice of the supernatural to enhance both the creepiness and the enjoyment.The chief protagonist of the Thieftaker Chronicles is Ethan Kaille, a British born former sailor whose checkered career includes a lengthy prison sentence in the sugar cane fields of Barbados. Kaille is a grim man who goes about his business of thieftaker (tracking down petty criminals and returning valuables to their proper owners) while trying not to get involved in the growing split between those loyal to the Crown and those who wish to loosen, or even break, colonial ties to it. Kaille is also a conjurer, able to use innate magical abilities to cast spells, protect himself (to a degree) from other conjurers, and heal himself when, as often happens, he runs into others who would do him harm.A Plunder of Souls is the most otherworldly of the Chronicles thus far. Corpses are dug up and mutilated and some of the recently dead appear to have been reawakened to lead a zombie-like existence neither in nor completely out of the world. Kaille's job is to track down what is happening, but his powers, as well as those of other conjurers in the area, seem to be mysteriously waning. The tale is intriguing, with some unexpected twists and turns. Readers will enjoy not just the story line but also the well crafted recreation of 18th century Boston, the result of what is obviously a great deal of research by Jackson, who holds a doctorate in history.While this is the third installment of The Thieftaker Chronicles, it is an independent story which can be read and enjoyed without reading the others. But I recommend reading all of them, because they are all excellent.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. fun, engaging character makes up for a few plot weaknesses By B. Capossere Just last week while on vacation out west, my son and I were discussing what were the greater obstacles to our enjoyment of books and what elements allowed for those obstacles to be overcome. One of my observations was that while a strong plot will rarely overcome poor characters for me, if you give me good characters, I can overlook more than a few plot flaws. Who knew how prophetic that conversation would be? For upon my return home, I found waiting for me a copy of D.B. Jackson’s A Plunder of Souls, the third in his historical fantasy series set in pre-Revolutionary Boston. At the series’ center lies beleaguered thieftaker/conjurer Ethan Kaille, and it was Kaille’s still-engaging voice that managed to ease me past, if not blind me to, the several plot issues in the novel.The year is 1769 and tensions are high: British soldiers have been stationed in the city and conflicts between the colonists and soldiers are becoming more frequent (it is only a year from now that the Boston Massacre will take place), non-importation policies have set Loyalists and Tories against one another amidst the merchants and the consumers, and the Sons of Liberty, led by Sam Adams, continue their protests against the Crown’s treatment. Adding to the building pressures within the city, a smallpox epidemic is breaking out and people are dying or being quarantined while those not yet affected consider fleeing the city or wander the streets in fear of contagion. Boston seems a tinderbox ready to be set alight, and what may be the spark that does so is a series of grotesque crimes involving the disinterment and mutilation of recently buried bodies. Kaille is hired by one of the churches to find the grave robbers, but even as his investigation brings him nearer to the villain, that which usually protects him—his magical power—becomes strangely unreliable, as his conjuring ability, and that of other “spellers” in the city, starts to diminish.I’ve enjoyed Kaille’s character since he was first introduced in Thieftaker several years ago, and I was happy to see him again and spend more time with him in A Plunder of Souls. Jackson really has his voice down, you can sense the ease and confidence in it, and the 20th century noir-ish narrative tone melded to the historical setting makes for a fun combination. As I’ve mentioned in reviews of the earlier books, I like that Kaille is on the downside of middle age, that he does dumb things, that he often loses the battles even if he wins the wars, that he is torn in so many ways: between his independence and his love for tavern owner Kannice, his fondness for England and his growing sympathies for the colonist’s concerns, his grudging admiration/respect for and fear of his rival (really his better) thieftaker Sephira, his use of his power to do his job and his constant concern that such use might lead to prison or worse as a witch.All of these elements come into play in Plunder. The stationing of the troops throughout the city has him thinking that the time is soon coming where he’ll have to choose a side, and somewhat to his surprise, he expects it will be the colonists’. Unfortunately, this political backdrop gets short shrift in the novel, serving mostly as background via a few brief references, and then appearing in what I confess felt a bit too much like a scene shoehorned in so as to namedrop Adams and Revere. I wish Jackson had done a bit more with this material (though one has to assume that if there is a book four, clearly in the plans, the timing will leave him little choice to address the politics more fully). Kannice is putting pressure on him to give up thieftaking, pointing out it is not really an old man’s job, and even as he says no, he doesn’t outright dismiss the thinking behind her concerns. Here again, I wish we had seen more of Kannice and of their relationship. His contentious and complicated relationship with Sephira remains a source of tension, humor, and unpredictability, and it grows even more complicated in this third book as the two must consider at least a temporary alliance. Finally, we see a bit more of the conjuring and how it works in Plunder, and what I was especially grateful for was the greater amount of time we spend with his fellow conjurer Janna, a cantankerous old woman with a spine of iron, a quick wit, and a sharp tongue. Send more please.Where Jackson’s characterization falls short, unfortunately, is with the main villain, who never really came alive for me, feeling instead like a stock role: semi-crazed, fully-obsessive, fast-mood-shifting, full-of-pronouncements, you-can’t-stop-me bad guy. Which is too bad, because the premise that underlies the villain’s acts had some rich potential for complexity and possible empathy, but while we’re given a few nudges in those directions, it isn’t quite enough.The problems with the villain cross over into the plot. I’m not going to go into details, but I had some questions with regard to how the villain executes his plot, some issues with how the plot is foiled (no real spoiler there I’m assuming), and felt the resolution was a bit clichéd. There seemed some contradictions, some plot holes, and a few points where I wanted to say, “But couldn’t he/they just . . . “Kaille’s inability to conjure reliably added some nice tension, but then the unreliability aspect of it became an issue as well, as it all started to feel a little arbitrary, with the magic failing or not depending not on any sense of an underlying causation but based more on the needs of the plot. Here again, I felt Jackson left some cards on the table, as I would have liked to have seen him mine a bit more Kaille’s response to losing his magic, potentially for good: how does he adapt or not, does he realize he has become too dependent on it, does he begin to think more seriously and deeply about Kannice’s offer to co-own/run her tavern, how much of his sense of self is wrapped up in his being a conjurer, etc. A lot of questions could have arisen in response to losing his magic, but mostly what happens is when a spell fails, he just tries again until it doesn’t.Plotting has been the weak point in all three novels to this point, and I keep hoping for some improvement in the storylines with each new incarnation. I’m still hoping that for book four (and we’re clearly pointed toward more in the series), which is admittedly beginning to wear a bit thin, but as I told my son, I can forgive a lot in the plot if you give me an winning character to carry me through, and Jackson has done that with Ethan Kaille. So while I may wish that those hoped-for plot improvements had come by now, I’m already looking forward to seeing what happens to poor Kaille next, especially in the context of the steadily worsening political situation.(first appeared on fantasyliterature.com)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. More Fun Historical Fantasy in Colonial Boston! By Joseph Finley “A Plunder of Souls” is a welcome and worthwhile edition to D.B. Jackson’s “Thieftaker” series, a quartet of historical fantasy novels set in colonial Boston. Like the series’ first two books, this one follows the adventures of Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker employed by Boston’s wealthy citizens who wish to go “above the law” to retrieve their stolen goods. Ethan is also a conjurer, or “speller,” as they’re called, who can work magic with the assistance of his spectral guardian, a medieval ghost he calls Uncle Reg. This magic system is original and fascinating and one of the series’ strengths. While the magic in this story world has never been fully explained – in fact, even Ethan does not understand all the workings behind his powers – it works brilliantly in these novels.Other than the main character, my favorite thing about the “Thieftaker” series is its setting. Reading these books, you get a real sense of colonial Boston, and boy is it fun. The first two installments involved some fairly significant historical events, namely the Stamp Act Riots and the British occupation of Boston. This one involves a smallpox epidemic that actually plagued the city in the summer of 1769, and while it’s not as interesting as the events in the first two books, Sam Adams and his patriots are still present, and even Paul Revere has a cameo. (I suspect we’ll see more him in future novels.) In any event, every time I pick up one of these books, I want to sit in an old Boston pub and drink some ale!The first two “Thieftaker” novels were true mysteries that neither Kaille nor the reader could solve until the very end. That may be why I enjoyed the first two books a bit more than this one. In “A Plunder of Souls,” there’s still a mystery – someone is desecrating graves, causing the spirits of the defiled dead to crop up throughout Boston, and the clerics of King’s Chapel have hired Kaille to put a stop to it. But unlike the prior two books, Kaille solves the mystery well before the end. What remains is an incredibly powerful adversary that Kaille spends the rest of novel trying to defeat – if he even can be defeated.A powerful enemy is nothing new to this series, though “A Plunder of Souls” offers up the most potent villain yet. That said, I would have preferred a little more mystery in this tale. Nonetheless, the book allowed me to escape once more to Ethan Kaille’s Boston, and that’s a place I truly enjoy spending time. So, I’m looking forward to the next book in the series. And I plan to read the first chapter with a big flagon of ale, and maybe even a bowl of chowder on the side!
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