![]() ![]() "Curtis Craddock's debut is a grand tale of intrigue, adventure, and gaslight fantasy in the tradition of Alexander Dumas. 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. It was Charles Stross who drew my attention to the opener, An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, back in 2017 when he proclaimed it a gaslight fantasy in the tradition of Alexander Dumas. ![]() In a world of soaring continents and bottomless skies, where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into. ![]() She is happy to be neglected so she can secretly pursue her illicit passion for math and science. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors: Tor (2017). Suspended by magic, they float in the upper layers of Caelum's clouds.īorn with a deformed hand and utter lack of the family's blood magic, Isabelle is despised by her cruel father. 4.07 1,829 ratings390 reviews Want to read Kindle 9. Remnants of a shattered world, these vast disks of soaring stone may be a thousand miles across. High above it are the Risen Kingdoms, occupying flying continents called cratons. A delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring an intelligent heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer.Ĭaelum is an uninhabitable gas giant like Jupiter. ![]()
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