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    The Princes' Game Series Summary: Princes' Game, #7
    The Princes' Game Series Summary: Princes' Game, #7
    The Princes' Game Series Summary: Princes' Game, #7
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    The Princes' Game Series Summary: Princes' Game, #7

    By M.C.A. Hogarth

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    Have you read the Princes' Game series? Do you want to read it, but prefer spoilers before going into intense and R-rated stories? Or do you just want to know what happened so you can skip ahead to other novels that refer to events that transpired during the series? The author has prepared this set of summaries for you! This volume includes:

    1. A blow-by-blow synopsis of each book;
    2. Discussions of the military and personal repercussions;
    3. Cast lists for each novel;
    4. Author commentary, and discussions about the titles of each book;
    5. Selected reader highlights;
    6. Author sketches and art relating to each book (some scanned specifically for this volume);
    7. Joke sketches relating to the entire series.

    Pick up the summary now to prepare yourself for the next generation of Peltedverse novels! Read it as a refresher or for the art, if you've enjoyed the series... or as preparation, if you want to read the series... or as a way to learn the context for the setting going forward!

    This summary volume is also available to members of the author's patreon or mailing list at no cost. But if you'd prefer to tuck a few cents into the author's pocket, that's good too.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStudio MCAH
    Release dateNov 28, 2018
    ISBN9781386208839
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      The Princes' Game Series Summary - M.C.A. Hogarth

      Princes' Game Series Summary

      M.C.A. Hogarth

      Studio MCAH

      Copyright © 2018 by M.C.A. Hogarth

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      ISBN-13: 978-1790711307

      mcahogarth.org

      Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      A Word About Ratings

      The Series Reading Order

      Book 1: Even the Wingless

      Wingless Art

      Sketch 1

      Sketch 2

      Sketch 3

      Sketch 4

      Sketch 5

      Sketch 6

      Sketch 7

      Book 2: Some Things Transcend

      Transcend Art

      Sketch 1

      Sketch 2

      Sketch 3

      Book 3: Amulet Rampant

      Amulet Art

      Sketch 1

      Sketch 2

      Sketch 3

      Book 4: Only the Open

      Only the Open Art

      Sketch 1

      Sketch 2

      Sketch 3

      Book 5: In Extremis

      Extremis Art

      Sketch 1

      Sketch 2

      Sketch 3

      Sketch 4

      Sketch 5

      Sketch 6

      Sketch 7

      Sketch 8

      Sketch 9

      Book 6: From Ruins

      Author Sketches

      Sketch 1

      Sketch 2

      Sketch 3

      Sketch 4

      Sketch 5

      Sketch 6

      Sketch 7

      Sketch 8

      Sketch 9

      Sketch 10

      Sketch 11

      Sketch 12

      Sketch 13: The Cast

      Jokes

      Joke Sketch 1

      Joke Sketch 2

      Joke Sketch 3

      Joke Sketch 4

      Joke Sketch 5

      Joke Sketch 6

      Joke Sketch 7

      Joke Sketch 8

      Joke Sketch 9

      Joke Sketch 10

      Joke Sketch 11

      Joke Sketch 12

      Joke Sketch 13

      Joke Sketch 14

      Final Thoughts

      About the Author

      Preface

      You have now in your hands the second edition of this Synopsis Project, which includes the summary of the final book in the series, From Ruins, along with all its art! If you have already downloaded the first edition, you need not re-read the earlier synopsis; they haven't changed. I have, however, added new art in all the sections, so be sure to page through and have a look.

      Introduction

      The Peltedverse is intended for everyone. There are gentle stories, and adventure stories; there are romances and war stories. There’s epic, enormous conflicts, and quiet, intimate ones. It’s supposed to reflect real life that way: a kind reflection, where people might struggle but they triumph. One of the other ways it reflects life, though, is that world-changing events are powered by violent conflicts, and the people who can no longer bring themselves to open their newsfeeds feel lost. In real life, that’s bad enough, but it’s a special kind of awful in fiction, which is where you turn to when you need to escape for a while.

      In the Peltedverse, it’s the Princes’ Game series that’s making the equivalent of headline news, and I know, because some of you have told me, that it’s not your cup of tea and that you wish I hadn’t put so much important stuff in it because you felt left out. That this universe, which you’ve used as your comfort, has books in it you feel you have to avoid, and that this makes you feel excluded.

      This is totally uncool, and I have decided to fix it.

      Enter this guide, which synopsizes each book of the Princes’ Game series. These aren’t back of the book blurbs, intended to entice you into reading the books (though if they work that way, great!). These are honest-to-goodness synopses, definitionally full of spoilers, and by the time you’re done reading them you should have the context you need for future books. You’ll even be able to re-read Dreamhealers and Her Instruments and see things in them that you might have missed.

      Does this guide replace the experience of reading the series? Unfortunately not. My books depend on every scene; I often think of their emotional climaxes as having to be earned by all the things that come before. The Princes’ Game series is, in effect, a single story culminating a redemption arc that needs six books to earn that pay-off. No matter how hard I try, I’m not going to be able to duplicate that experience by summarizing what happens. That’s for the best, though, because otherwise why go through all the work of writing them…! And maybe some of you will want to give the series a try if you’re armed with the spoilers; I often do that myself, and in fact I had an awful experience with a really lovely book because I wasn’t forewarned that it had a happy ending, and I felt jerked around by the middle parts where it felt like things would never work out. I would have loved that book had I been prepared (it was The Goblin Emperor, for the curious). So if you feel like you want to jump into the series after reading the synopses, do that! But if the synopses make you feel like it was a good decision to keep the series at arm’s length, that’s awesome too. Those of you who have read the series might enjoy this guide as a refresher, or for the insight into my brain. Or you might even have missed some of the things I’m talking about… you never know!

      All I want for this guide is for everyone to feel like they’re on the same page, no matter what they’re comfortable reading.

      Having said that, this whole thing is a little tongue in cheek. I think humor helps keep the hard stuff a little more distant, and it also makes the synopses less dry. Plus, it’s kind of an absurd exercise, trying to turn 600,000 words worth of story into a few pages! I figured I’d have fun with it, and maybe you would too.

      But enough with the jawing. Let’s get to the story. Compressed.

      A Word About Ratings

      I’d give the entire Princes’ Game series a global rating of R (by the movie scale). Lots of violence and sex of various kinds, but not blow-by-blow graphic about any of it. Most of my scenes use snapshot moments... I’ll pick one detail that makes it feel real but I won’t linger, and for the most part I’m less interested in the physical reality of what’s happening and more in the emotional one. I don’t really care how someone gets tortured. I want to know what went through their head while it was happening. (This is what makes it hard for a lot of people, I’ve been told.) So that’s the tone of the whole series. Different installments in the book have slightly more or less of all this stuff, and the type of violence or sex changes. I’ll try hard to tell you the nuances.

      If reading a synopsis of things happening to people is troubling to you, please be forewarned about the entire Study Guide; I don’t go into detail, but I will tell you that things happened, and often to characters you care about. Be prepared and read (or skim) when you’re ready.

      The Series Reading Order

      Even the Wingless

      Some Things Transcend

      Amulet Rampant

      Only the Open

      In Extremis

      From Ruins

      Book 1: Even the Wingless

      The book where telempathy > abusive dragons.

      Rating: R. Rape. Violence. Outright torture. Drug abuse. Slavery. Lots of sex, most all nonconsensual.

      This is the story that starts it all. Not just the series, but the chain of events that rearranges galactic politics for three separate nations. And it starts with Lisinthir Nase Galare, who is, in the words of one of my favorite reviews, the most bad*** character I've seen in one of Hogarth's stories, and you'll cheer for him the entire time.

      Our set-up then. The Chatcaava are a race of small, bipedal, mammalian (yes, this is a ?) dragons who can shift shape. Their empire is enormous and full of warring factions. The current Chatcaavan Emperor rode to power on his ability to play them against one another to keep them in check, and now straddles the throne of a political power focused on its ability to conquer and annex territory... because the other thing you do with people who like fighting is direct that fight outward. This is a social system that rewards the strong and enslaves or destroys

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