An excellent second book in a series that is fast becoming one of my favorites. This book takes two minor characters from the first book set in this world (The Court of the Air) and makes them the stars of their own adventure. You do not need to have read the first book in the series to understan...
Ah, I dunno. It was a good enough read but I am left unsatisfied. Maybe it's the repetition of "X is an unbeatable opponent" and five pages later "Well, that's X sorted, what's next?"Maybe it's the mish-mash slapdash "with a mighty leap" ending. I can't describe my problems with it without spoil...
Caution: Contains Spoilers! In this latest book in the series, Hunt continues with his well-developed steam punk world, based loosely on what Europe might have been like at about the time of the first Commonwealth in England and just after the French Revolution, if both had been even more extre...
The joint had been called “Six Left Feet” last time Zeno had been on station, presumably in homage to the pre-industrial aborigines living on the world below, enough limbs to keep every cobbler in the alliance happy. Now it was renamed “Samuel Happy Samuel”. Under new ownership. He felt a tug of ...
The hall floor had been lined in dark brown wood, polished up to a mirror shine. A mahogany gallery ran all the way around the second storey, hanging off castle-thick grey limestone, walls mounted with colourful metal shields and the stuffed heads of stags and deer and mountain lions. Duncan Land...
Anna Kurtain strolled by his side, Prince Owen’s bodyguard and confidante filling out a long grey overcoat with two series of copper buttons, a worn leather belt with a pistol on one hip and a sheathed sabre on the other. People were flooding in from all over, and not just politicians from the re...
Whatever problems Anna has, they’re small beans compared to the complaints and worries of the refugees fleeing Weyland. ‘Ever since I was wounded by that assassin inside Midsburg,’ said Anna, ‘Owen’s treated me like I’m a porcelain heirloom. Far too valuable to put in harm...