The Paradox, Charlie Fletcher
The Paradox, Charlie Fletcher
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The Paradox

Author: Charlie Fletcher

Narrator: Charlie Fletcher

Unabridged: 10 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 08/09/2016

Synopsis

"Exciting, exhilaring, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized." -- M. R. Carey

The Last Hand of the Oversight still patrols the border between the natural and supranatural, holding a candle to the darkness. But this new Hand is unproven, its fresh members untrained, its veterans weary and battle-scarred. Their vulnerability brings new enemies into the city, and surprising new allies from across the sea.

But most surprising of all are new revelations about the Oversight's past, revelations that will expose the true peril of the world in which Sharp and Sara are trapped -- the secret of the Black Mirrors, and what lies beyond. And the catastrophic danger that will follow them home, if they ever manage to return.

The dark waters rise. The candles are guttering. But the light still remains.

For now. . .

About Charlie Fletcher

Charlie Fletcher is a screenwriter and children's author living in Edinburgh. His Stoneheart trilogy has been translated into a dozen languages and the film rights have been sold to Paramount. The first volume, Stoneheart, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase award and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. His stand-alone novel for children, Far Rockaway, was published last year to great critical acclaim and has been longlisted for the Carnegie prize. He can be found on Twitter at @CharlieFletch_r.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on September 23, 2017

Book 1: 3* Book 2: 3.5* UF/Steampunk series set in Victorian England encompassing an ancient group who are protectors of London against things that go bump in the night. This was a much better book than the first and had the ending been on a grander scale I would have given it 4*'s. This book however......more

Goodreads review by Yzabel on January 20, 2016

Interesting in that it picks up loos threads from the first book and expands on them, but it definitely reads like a seris of "middles", with no real plot to speak of. The danger the Oversight has to face is basically thrown in through a few sparse chapters, and it feels like more loose threads were......more

Goodreads review by Jasper on September 09, 2015

originally posted at: [URL not allowed] Last year Charlie Fletcher really took me by surprise with his Urban Fantasy debut The Oversight. This dark, Gothic inspired story contained a ton of wealth in terms of atmosphere, characters and general ideas. I nominated The Oversight f......more

Goodreads review by Romanticamente on June 25, 2020

Maljka - per RFS . Questo secondo capitolo della trilogia Oversight è decisamente diverso dal primo. Nel volume precedente, nonostante la moltitudine dei personaggi, la narrazione risultava accattivante e veloce nel cambio di azioni e situazioni, in questo invece è molto più lenta; i punti di vista e l......more

Goodreads review by Charon on March 17, 2016

So I don't know why I didn't write a review for The Oversight speaking of which I need to re-read that book at somepoint because heck these books are brilliant...Anyway when are we getting the final book? I mean seriously the way The Paradox ended well I was pretty shocked as to how it ended and no......more

Quotes

"Those already familiar with this world will be delighted, and newcomers will eagerly lose themselves in this utterly imaginative fantasy."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Paradox

"A teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized. This feels like the start of something amazing."—M. R. Carey on The Oversight

"A thoughtfully dense, fully realized construct.... Best of all, you never know where it's going next. As good as or better than the opener. Grab."—Kirkus

"Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step."—Frances Hardinge on The Oversight

"I couldn't stop reading... It really is a richly atmospheric and intensely readable slice of Victoriana: gothic as all get out, with a splendidly eerie sense of the way the unearthly lies cheek-by-jowl with the mundane. Cheerable goodies, grotesque baddies: the whole book is adventurous and flavorsome and gripping. I really enjoyed it."—Adam Roberts on The Overight

"Utterly enthralling: Charles Dickens meets Susanna Clarke."—Lou Morgan on The Oversight

"I'll certainly be reading the next one."—Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing.net on The Oversight

"It's oh so moreish a morsel. I'd read a prequel this evening, a sequel as soon as."—Niall Alexander, Tor.com on The Oversight

"A trilogy worth sinking your teeth into."—SciFi Now on The Oversight

"The second book can't come soon enough."—Booklist (Starred Review)

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