
An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
The Risen Kingdoms, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Erin Bennett
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By:
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Curtis Craddock
A delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring an intelligent heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer.
Caelum is an uninhabitable gas giant like Jupiter. High above it are the Risen Kingdoms, occupying flying continents called cratons. Remnants of a shattered world, these vast disks of soaring stone may be a thousand miles across. Suspended by magic, they float in the upper layers of Caelum's clouds.
Born with a deformed hand and an utter lack of the family's blood magic, Isabelle is despised by her cruel father. She is happy to be neglected so she can secretly pursue her illicit passion for math and science. Then, a surprising offer of an arranged royal marriage blows her life wide open and launches her and Jeane-Claude on an adventure that will take them from the Isle des Zephyrs in l'Empire Céleste to the very different Kingdom of Aragoth, where magic deals not with blood but with mirrors.
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It is a jumble of so many genres you get a headache. wholeheartedly enjoyable!
Good one. Worth the credit
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Together with these two elements the author blends a thick seasoning of 17th century-ish historical conventions, colloquialisms and regional dialects...which is weird. So, you've got sortof Frenchmen, Spaniards and Englishmen bumping into each other (in space?) with swords and ships and woowoo. Its kind of like the Princess Bride with robots. The language never really worked for me. Its too familiar and kept bringing me into real history, not building up a fantastic otherworld.
The intensive introspective dialogue was overbearing. When you think about the the actual footprint of time in the story its just a matter of days: but we see every revolution of every thought in every characters head. Its not horrible but its taxing. Its like a football coach who spends two hours walking through all of the intricacies of a how a single down played out: its interesting but sometimes you just want to watch the game.
I recommend it but I'm not sure I'm ready to move onto book two, yet.
Good. just good
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Must Read
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Fantastic Author and Story - Can't Wait for More!
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Source of many extended driveway moments.
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fun ride!
Expectations met, and exceeded.
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Captivating story
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Didn't grab me
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Helluva Debut
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