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The Wind Walker

Children of the Sky, Book 1

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The Wind Walker

By: Simon Shugar
Narrated by: Joseph Sweeney
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To avoid his fate as a Breaker Boy—children forced to work the mines—Zephyr must find a way to earn enough coin to buy his freedom and escape the city of Crater. Yet there are only so many options afforded to a young boy with no family. Thievery is one.

At the same time—Captain Bacchus and his eccentric crew have been tasked with finding the whereabouts of a treasure, which they know little to nothing about. Yet with a reward of over 50 times their normal going rate, how can they turn the opportunity down?

©2022 Simon Shugar (P)2024 Simon Shugar Science Fiction Steampunk Fiction Destiny

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much to my chagrin, this audio book seemed short. I listened to it during work and it went by fast

the characters are well developed

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Would highly recommend!! Good steampunk adventure .Really want the next books to come out on Audible !!!

Good story telling

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I would like to have this as a show mainly animated I feel like it will do better Justice for visual effect.

the love, the Treasure Planet world step up. but it's still it own world and store.

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Author here, Joe did an amazing job at bringing the world in Crater to life!

I'm the author!

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I'm a long-haul trucker. I try to only listen while driving and either read or catch up on YouTube when I'm parked. I was so wrapped up that I had to finish it after my drive shift.

Loved it.

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I loved that the book took its time to reach any out of this world magic. It felt grounded and inspired

Kept my attention

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The book started off with a decent premise and had a lot of potential. Sadly that’s where it ends for me. There were too many inconsistencies with the story. Zephyr and the other were all described as children but then they got drunk at a bar. Why and how? Then they were grounded for two cycles which I first thought to mean days but then a pirate boasted having sailed the sky’s for 6 cycles without seeing a whale so did it mean month?
The world building felt smaller than it should as well. Zehper got to the gardens very quickly for what should have been an impossibly tall city. Speaking a zephyr, he was the biggest and most selfish twat I’ve ever read in a book. Basically no redeeming qualities at all and all the major plot points were driven by the same concept of “oh damn, the consequences of my own selfish actions!”
Finally, as a non Christian, thank you (not really) for assuming I knew what a seraph was. The magical flying bit felt shoehorned in at the end and almost out of place. Calling a book wind walker and only having said wind walking happen in the last few minutes didn’t really work for me.
The annoying part, and this is why I have it a 3 star, is I kinda want to know what happens next. It’s mostly a morbid curiosity in that I want to see just how stupid zephyr can be, but still.

The book was…meh

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