Kevin C. Wong

Book - War Maid's Choice (2012) [/]

War Maid's Choice is the fourth novel of David Weber's War God series. It's a fantasy world where the main protagonist is Bahzell Bahnakson, a hradani, who ends up traveling the land doing good for his god, Tomanak the god of justice, while putting up with bigotry and fear since the hradani are treated as dangerous monsters, kind of like in D&D see an orc kill an orc mentality.

Bahzell starts out wandering with his best friend, Brandark a wannabe bard. He makes friends and becomes a champion of Tomanak and becomes the key to defeating the evil gods on his world.

In this book it's a few years later. A canal is being built that will connect the Dwarf lands to the Horse lands but will destabilize the politics of the Horse lands. All the ghouls in the moor have banded together and are determined to wipe out a combined allied army with Bahzell. Meanwhile The Dark sets up one of the Horse land barons to make a play for the throne and Bahzell's lady love Leeana is right in the middle of that.

If you like the previous books this is much the same. I like that the character arcs are progressing, especially Bahzell and Leeana, though Kaeritha from book 3 is barely in this book. It is a bit slow in the beginning and seems to end really quickly, like the big battle is bang bang bang and three major devils dead in a few pages.

I did want to read this book to see if Leeana and Bahzell become a couple which they did. Weber also resolved the big Horse lands conflict leaving the series at a good place to stop. Even though there is a fifth book I don't feel the need to read it like I did for this book.