Coup d'Etat is the second studio album by South Korean rapper G-Dragon, member and leader of the K-pop group Big Bang. The album was initially released on iTunes. The first five tracks of the album were released on September 2, , the The album was first released digitally divided in two parts: Coup d'État: Part I.
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To me that felt like a bit of soap opera dropped in almost at random, and it was pretty jarring. Having spoken of Laurence, I should turn to Temeraire.
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A small example is his convincing Laurence to take repayment of the ten thousand pounds, lost so many years ago after Africa, by suggesting that he give it to Laurence in jewels instead; but he also sets the whole Prussian dragon escape in motion when he tries to come up with ways to get the Prussians to come back into the war rather than rely on diplomats. And the scene when Eroica and Dyhern are reunited is just wonderful. Going back to the start: Assembling the Coalition is made more difficult than in our history because two of the Prussian royal children are hostage in Paris.
Might as well close this part on a little note of humor: While I did expect treatment of dragons to be a major issue in the conclusion of the book, I did not expect the cure for the dragon plague to be significant again. Also, here is the payoff for Junichiro: You might not think that was enough, or still dislike him, which is understandable. Note that since Anahuarque is still in power at the end of the book, Junichiro may well have succeeded in tipping the balance of power in East Asia somewhat away from China.
It was his stratagem in Russia refined and writ large: That most of those ferals would be slaughtered in reprisal, or starve in the ensuing chaos, he would ignore, save when convenient for him to come to the aid of one or another band, as an excuse for making still more war upon his neighbors. Which sets up expectations of a betrayal, which will not … exactly … be the case. We also get a little more orientation about the overall war while at Fontainebleau: Iskierka is herself but more sensible about it, basically. There are a couple of occasions where she tells Temeraire to stop wallowing and be practical, and Temeraire is disconcerted to have no counter-argument.
But his very success gave one of his cousins, who he is suing, the chance to spread his name a little too widely. Also, why was I deprived of a huddling-for-warmth scene while they were literally sleeping in a cave of ice without a fire?! I laughed so, so hard: I personally never entertained the thought that she would join Napoleon while the Coalition was still fighting, the same way I never worried that her egg would be smashed: I am a little alarmed at her apparent intention to end war by establishing herself as a global tyrant to jump ahead a little; see her conversation with Perscitia in Chapter 12 , but I think the ending will forestall that, considering how many dragons joined the Coalition because they wanted a balance of power.
Also note that Iskierka got what she wanted: As the summaries suggest, this section is short but it lays a lot of groundwork and parcels out some of the happy endings early, too. Of course she was justly angry with him for martyring himself in Victory , but since then their correspondence has been very friendly. And so we get an early happy ending, or at least a moment of respite, in Chapter The non-formal parts of politics are hard work, too! On to the military side of things: So this strikes me as plausible, but I can respect if others find it just too much to imagine the Admiralty swallowing.
Captains Poole and Windle were not named in the brawl at the start of Victory of Eagles , which Laurence remembers them participating in now, just to save you the trouble of looking it up.
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Oh, and finally Ferris gets reinstated, lifting a burden that Laurence has been bearing for a very long time. Which is always a tricky thing, to keep stuff from people for their own good, but it was an admirably non-selfish impulse and in context shows that Temeraire is capable of successful independent political action—useful, given the ending!
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Temeraire manages the dinner and drafting the Bill with the help of Perscitia, of course, and the smaller but still critical help of Ning. I enjoyed these scenes immensely. Perscitia is corresponding with John Wampanoag about trade, and I confidently expect them to be sitting atop a global trade empire in a hundred years. She is very opposed to war, at least?
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We get two new female crew members for Temeraire: But these welcome additions are also the occasion for a sneaky, sharp yank on my heartstrings: On a happier note, we see HMS Temeraire at the end of this section, on blockade duty and firing a salute to her namesake, which is a slight alteration from our history, where she was taken out of service as a warship in early Because whoa, look at her go.
Or, rather, not go: And this is entirely in keeping with what we saw in Crucible , because her original Empire is still recovering from massive depopulation. According to The Napoleonic Wars: So though Napoleon sees it as a betrayal, understandably so, I agree with the narrative that she did the right thing. I do not think, as Jane and Laurence speculate, that Anahuarque will have him poisoned; at least not preemptively. If he starts getting restive, sure. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I will call myself content.
I nearly got chills when I realized that. Temeraire mentions reopening some ports to the Tswana dragons, who tell him,. Now the rest of you can squabble it out among yourselves, and leave us alone. Which shows again that Napoleon sowed the seeds of his own undoing, and also sets up such fascinating potential for the alternate history of Africa. The whole world looks vastly different from ours at the end of the series, and I love it.
They are the cause of one final bit of growth for Laurence, who resolves to actually join Napoleon if the poison plan is adopted. Here are a few notes about dragons: It was also the original planned title for the fourth novel. A Dance with Dragons is set in a fictitious world reminiscent of medieval Europe primarily on a continent called Westeros , except for the fact that in this world, seasons can last for years, occasionally decades.
The War of the Five Kings seems to be winding down. In the North , King Stannis Baratheon has installed himself at the Wall and vowed to win the support of the northmen to continue his struggle to claim the Iron Throne , although this is complicated by the fact that much of the west coast is under occupation by the ironborn.
Tyrion Lannister has been taken by ship across the Narrow Sea to Pentos , but his eventual goals are unknown even to him. On Slaver's Bay , Daenerys Targaryen has conquered the city of Meereen , and has decided to stay and rule the city, honing her skills of leadership which will be needed when she travels on to Westeros.
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But Daenerys' presence is now known to many in Westeros, and from the Iron Islands and Dorne , from Oldtown and the Free Cities , emissaries are on their way to find her and use her cause for their own ends The tale is told through the eyes of sixteen POV characters and, as with previous volumes, a one-off prologue and epilogue POV.
King Stannis Baratheon wants land and waycastles belonging to the Watch, which he means to hand out as fiefs to his most loyal supporters. The Others are continuing to mass beyond the Wall. Mance Rayder 's wildling host, leaderless and smashed by Stannis during the events of A Storm of Swords , still numbers in the thousands, and Jon sees every wildling represents another wight the Others can send against the Wall.
To this end he takes great pains to court the wildlings, winning them over to his side and uniting them with the Watch against their common foe; but in doing so, he loses the support of many of his sworn brothers. Shortly after shepherding a large wilding host through the Wall, he is stabbed by several members of the Night's Watch, his last chapter ending with him falling unconscious.
Melisandre , meanwhile, burns Rattleshirt disguised as Mance Rayder under a sorcerous glamour, while Rayder secretly lives on disguised as Rattleshirt. She reveals to Jon Snow that a grey girl on a dying horse, who she interprets to be Arya Stark , is coming up the kingsroad to seek asylum, and with Snow's permission dispatches Rayder and several spearwives to rescue her.
The woman is revealed to actually be Alys Karstark , fleeing the manipulations of her relatives in light of her father 's death. After taking Jon's advice Stannis is able to seize Deepwood Motte with the allegiance of the hill folk , the Karstarks, the Glovers and Mormonts , and half of the Umbers.
He then moves against Ramsay Bolton , who has taken up seat in the ruins of Winterfell with the other half of the northern bannermen. At last report — a gloating letter in Ramsay's handwriting to Jon Snow — Stannis's host was smashed and the king slain. However, Davos continues to narrate long after the chronological moment when the queen received word of his death; he is being kept in genteel imprisonment and is eventually freed by Robett Glover , who has joined Lord Manderly in presenting a friendly face to the Freys whilst secretly plotting their downfall, especially now that Cersei has released Wendel.
Davos is commissioned to retrieve Rickon Stark from the island of Skagos ; should he succeed, House Manderly and its vassals will join Stannis's cause.
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Asha Greyjoy , lately fled the Iron Islands after her unsuccessful bid at the kingsmoot , that saw her uncle Euron crowned, is captured after Stannis's assault on Deepwood Motte and taken with Stannis's host as he marches on Winterfell. Meanwhile, a creature now known as "Reek" — once Theon Greyjoy , before Ramsay tortured and psychologically abused him into adopting his new identity — is released by Ramsay to convince the ironborn-held Moat Cailin to surrender, thus allowing Lord Roose Bolton , a contingent of Freys, and those northerners who escaped the Red Wedding to return home.
With them comes Ramsay's new bride, a girl calling herself " Arya Stark. Together they smuggle Jeyne out of the castle and eventually reach Stannis's host, where the narrative leaves them; Ramsay's letter mentions that he wants his wife and Reek back, suggesting that they at least were able to escape the slaughter.
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Daenerys Targaryen , Queen of Meereen , finds the crown lying uneasy on her head. Though she rules Meereen, a guerilla resistance called the Sons of the Harpy pick off her men when they can. Many Meereenese citizens resent the new order of things, and a number of other cities eventually take up arms against her, as the slave trade she abolished is one of the cornerstones of the economy of the region.
She has no idea how to tame her dragons , which are ranging far and wide and eating whatever they feel like And she is visited by Quaithe of the Shadow, who warns her of the others descending on her: Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. The lion, Tyrion Lannister , lately fled the Seven Kingdoms and accusations of regicide and kinslaying, is smuggled to Pentos with the help of Varys the Spider and left in the care of Illyrio Mopatis , supporter of Daenerys Targaryen.
Tyrion decides to offer his services to her, and makes the journey in the company of a tall taciturn knight, " Griff ," and his son "Young Griff. Whilst at the town of Selhorys , Tyrion is waylaid by Penny , a dwarf woman who was hired to be entertainment at King Joffrey 's wedding and whose brother and performing partner was killed in Cersei's purge, and then by Ser Jorah Mormont , who kidnaps him as a prize to win his way back into Daenerys's graces. Unfortunately the Selaesori Qhoran , the ship Mormont hires to take them to Volantis , is waylaid by slavers, and he, Tyrion and Penny are sold at markets in the shadow of Meereen, claiming to be an entertainment act.
From there, Tyrion sneaks his way to the camp of the Second Sons , led by Brown Ben Plumm , and pledges his sword to them as another step in getting closer to Daenerys. Though Victarion has few chapters in this novel, they reveal that he has been given possession of Euron's dragon-binding horn. He also comes across a red priest, Moqorro who was last seen on Tyrion's ship, being washed overboard not long before the slavers attacked.
Moqorro brings Victarion to believe in R'hllor , the Lord of Light, by demonstrating his power, and claims to know how to use the dragon horn safely. Victarion's men call the priest the "Black Flame" after "Moqorro" proves too difficult for them to pronounce.
He has a parchment signed by Ser Willem Darry many years ago, establishing that his elder sister Arianne Martell is to wed Prince Viserys Targaryen when he comes of age; it is Prince Doran's wish that Quentyn and Daenerys stand in place of their deceased elder siblings in this matter. Alas, he arrives too late, finding Dany about to enter into a political marriage see below , and is then left in a bad position when her new husband tries to have her poisoned—a tactic notorious to Quentyn's uncle Oberyn Martell. In a last-ditch effort to prove his worth, Quentyn visits Dany's two dragons, Viserion and Rhaegal , and attempts to tame them.
He dies of his burns three days later. Connington and Prince Aegon never arrive at Meereen. They have hired the Golden Company , a group of sellswords made exclusively of Westerosi exiles. Once in their company, Aegon shows that he has listened to Tyrion's counsel during their time together despite Tyrion admonishing him to trust no one, "especially me": He too seeks Daenerys's hand, and too is keenly aware that he must have something worthwhile to offer her besides his own bloodline as her nephew.
The first conquest is of Griffin's Roost , Connington's former seat, which is a relief to the exiled lord as he has contracted a terminal disease, greyscale , in his travels. Their main target is Storm's End , the siege of which Aegon proposes to lead himself. Unlike the symbolism of Quaithe's other references, the "pale mare" is a literal horse, carrying a refugee from Astapor.
He too brings a gift: On the advice of her councilors, Daenerys marries Hizdahr zo Loraq , a leading noble who is able to pacify the Sons of the Harpy and broker a cease-fire between Meereen and her aggressors, which include Volantis , Qarth and Yunkai; however, she gives in to her attraction to Daario Naharis before the ceremony.
She also locks Viserion and Rhaegal away to keep them from eating anyone, but is unable to capture Drogon , who escapes into the wild. As part of her wedding feast, Daenerys goes against her own wishes and allows the fighting pits of Meereen to reopen, and is present for the first slave-gladiator games Daenerys leaps into Drogon's back and the two fly away, leaving Meereen largely in the hands of Ser Barristan Selmy , who takes over not only the rulership but narration.
Selmy, as viewpoint character, becomes convinced that Hizdahr was trying to poison Daenerys—a sweetmeat he offered her turned out to almost kill Strong Belwas when he ate them instead--and is able to organize a coup, but his attempts to re-broker a peace fail, and the war begins in earnest.
The final chapter aside from the epilogue is Daenerys's, as she attempts to return on foot to Meereen from a hill in the southern reaches of the Dothraki sea , which Drogon has taken for his haunt, only to be encountered by the khalasar of Khal Jhaqo as the novel ends. A few chapters deal with the fate of a trainee in the House of Black and White , a girl formerly known as Arya Stark , currently blind. It is revealed that her blindness is yet another step in her training and is maintained by a potion she is given every night; she refuses an antidote, knowing that to yield is to be released from her training.
After passing the blind portion of her regimen and successfully orchestrating the assassination of a hated insurance agent, she is officially advanced in her training. Blackwood is the final bannerman of Robb Stark 's still under arms, but yields once presented with someone to surrender to with whom he has not had a lifelong feud.