An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, Curtis Craddock
An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, Curtis Craddock
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An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
Book One in the Risen Kingdoms

Author: Curtis Craddock

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Unabridged: 18 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/29/2017


Synopsis

A delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring an intelligent heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer.

Caelum is an uninhabitable gas giant like Jupiter. High above it are the Risen Kingdoms, occupying flying continents called cratons. Remnants of a shattered world, these vast disks of soaring stone may be a thousand miles across. Suspended by magic, they float in the upper layers of Caelum's clouds.

Born with a deformed hand and utter lack of the family's blood magic, Isabelle is despised by her cruel father. She is happy to be neglected so she can secretly pursue her illicit passion for math and science. 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.

“Curtis Craddock's debut is a grand tale of intrigue, adventure, and gaslight fantasy in the tradition of Alexander Dumas.” —Charles Stross

About Curtis Craddock

Curtis Craddock lives in Sterling, CO where he teaches English to inmates in a state penitentiary. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors is his first book.


Reviews

[4.5 stars] An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors was such a cool book! It had interesting character profiles, totally immersive world-building, and an abundance of drop-in details that I found totally original. When I first received the book for review and saw cover quotes from Brandon Sanderson and La......more

Goodreads review by Katie

Things Katie Enjoys In A Novel, As Correlated With "An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors": _X_ Calculus jokes _X_ Period-appropriate prose ___ Talking cats _X_ Strong, sassy heroines who have no trouble kicking it with the boys _X_ Believable, likable characters ___ Pandas _X__ Swashbuckling _X__ Witty reparte......more

Goodreads review by Allen

Absolutely fantastic. Contending for my top read of the year so far. Musketeers, airships, excellent political intrigue with real stakes, a slowly unraveling mystery. So good! Full review to come!......more

Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths. An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors is crisply written, cleverly plotted, and highly imaginative; a fantasy which succeeds in combining elements from different speculative fiction genres into an entertaining opening to The Risen Kingdoms series. The tale begins with d......more