Clockwork Boys

Name: Clockwork Boys
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: T. Kingfisher
ISBN: 9781721339617

Author: T. Kingfisher

Series: Clocktaur War #1

Narrator: Khristine Hvam

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 07/23/2019

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It's not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher's new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager's city.If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy territory, directly into the capital. It also requires them to refrain from killing each other along the way! At turns darkly comic and touching, Clockwork Boys puts together a broken group of people trying to make the most of the rest of their lives as they drive forward on their suicide mission.

About T. Kingfisher

T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children's books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Coyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections. This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about elves and goblins. When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by astarion's bhaal babe (wingspan matters) on February 21, 2023

"Would you like to go on a suicide mission?" she asked. He smiled. It was the first genuine smile she'd seen all day. "I would be honored," he said. So, I don't know if you guys remember but I let my boyfriend pick my next read and he chose this one because -it looks cool. -but have you read......more

Goodreads review by Lois on March 22, 2018

Well, that suited my reading mood. Be it noted, this and its second half, The Wonder Engine, is one story, cut in half for length -- well, more like one-third/two-thirds -- not two. I read both together, so this review covers both. Don't think of it as the author charging you twice for one tale, but......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on April 12, 2020

Clockwork Orange boy. Different and yet somehow alike. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: The plot of T. Kingfisher’s Clockwork Boys is of the “misfit company of strangers on a dangerous mission” type. Their country has been invaded by the so-called Clockwork Boys, nearly unstoppable, 1......more