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Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.
But a demon is terrorizing …
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Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.
But a demon is terrorizing …
Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.
But a demon is terrorizing …
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the …
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the …
It starts out reading like a palace intrigue story, with many scary and daunting things looming in the future of the protagonist, once he starts making friend and allies, things turn around for him. The last ~100 pages are just pleasant pay off for all the characters introduced and bonds built, which was very pleasant to read. All of it still feels earned as well.
A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a brilliant young talent
The …
A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a brilliant young talent
The …
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
The narration style takes a little bit to get used to and things are very confusing at first. However, it becomes great quite quickly. There are a lot of short timeskips in the book which mean you only every read some of the most exciting bits of this story.
Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil …