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Chargement... The Olympian Affairpar Jim Butcher
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In the Cinder Spires series, Jim Butcher trades in commercial wizardry on the mean streets of Chicago for a postapocalyptic aero-punk world with large talking cats, duels, flying beasties called mistmaws, and sword-slinging duelists on giant airships. The Olympian Affair is a delayed sequel to The Aeronaut’s Windlass (2015). Palace intrigue, aerial battles, mysterious etherialists, and ominous magical pronouncements from wise old cats spice up the adventure. If you like Windlass, you will like this one. ( ) All I can say is that Sir Jim better be working hard on the next installment! I commend him for persisting with the tale as he hints that it wasn't easy. I did feel the book started tentatively and then picked up steam -- perhaps as he saw his way forward. Can't say much without spoiling, but once again Butcher achieves an excellent balance of interactions between the characters, detailed action, fraught situation, and some pure fun. Hope book 3 proceeds more smoothly! ****1/2 Reading this has been a real struggle. I so love Dresden, and I want to love this, but it drags. The cats are the most interesting characters, but they are only briefly amusing. Update: Somewhere just short of the halfway point, this picked up. Part of my problem was the time between reading books 1 and 2...and I missed the novella, so I didn't remember much about the people. I don't know if Robert E. Howard invented the capture blade with fleshy body part duel-winning technique, but it was used well here. I thought this one was better than the first, actually. Still almost non-stop action, but it felt better paced. By now, since we are familiar with the characters of Bridget, Gwen, Grimm, Benedict, there was less intro necessary, though this one does introduce another couple, Alexander and Abigail. All out war between Albion and Aurora is coming, the question is, how will it start? More airship action, more hand to hand combat (and duels) and more etheralists, all that you'd expect from a Butcher action fantasy. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war. Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon—one capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires. A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents. It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albion—assuming that it is not already too late. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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