Two Serpents Rise
“They lost, our boss won, kicked out priests and pantheon, and now we all pretend three thousand years of bloodshed didn’t happen. We put a fence around history and hang a plaque and assume it’s over. Try to forget.”
Second book in the Craft Sequence, and also second chronologically – but not chronologically after book one!
Featuring magical eco-terrorists/freedom fighters, an immortal skeletal sorcerer-slash-mayor-slash-CEO, magical parkour, a tense father-son relationship, giant dragonfly taxis, Central American mythology, and Teo Batan.
Being totally honest, this website’s admin doesn’t love this book and skips it in re-reads. However, it seems popular with the wider readership so you may love it!
Also…it features the King in Red. You don’t want to miss out on the King in Red.
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Summary of Two Serpents Rise
Shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc — casual gambler and professional risk manager — to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds an alluring and clever cliff runner, crazy Mal, who easily outpaces him.
But Caleb has more than the demon infestation, Mal, or job security to worry about when he discovers that his father — the last priest of the old gods and leader of the True Quechal terrorists — has broken into his home and is wanted in connection to the attacks on the water supply.
From the beginning, Caleb and Mal are bound by lust, Craft, and chance, as both play a dangerous game where gods and people are pawns. They sleep on water, they dance in fire… and all the while the Twin Serpents slumbering beneath the earth are stirring, and they are hungry.
We know that the Craft Sequence has a weird chronology, but what is the actual timeline across the series? How old are characters during different novels.
We’ve worked it out from references in the books – and updated it with new information.