![]() ![]() I stumbled into this series by accident not even a year ago and I’m very glad that I did. And if that means taking down the man he thought he loved? Now a political hostage in this newly reignited conflict, Gal must use his limited resources to sabotage the rebellion from within, concoct an escape plan, and return to the empire he’s destined to lead. To save Gal’s life, Ettian does the unthinkable: He reveals himself as the secret heir to the fallen Archon Empire and rightful leader of the rebellion.and, therefore, Gal’s sworn enemy. ![]() Gal is captured by the rebellion during a skirmish and faces public execution, his grand fate cut short. ![]() Yet nothing is ever that simple in war - or in love. But he was born to rule the Umber Empire, and with Ettian by his side, nothing will stop him from returning home and crushing the growing insurgency threatening his family’s power. When a failed assassination plot against Gal sends him and Ettian - his infuriatingly enticing roommate - on a mad dash through the stars, Gal’s plans are momentarily disrupted. Gal’s destiny has always been clear: Complete his training at the military academy, prove his worth as a royal successor, and ascend to the galactic throne. “A knockout.” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) ![]() Torn between loyalty and love, a young prince will learn how much he’s willing to sacrifice as he tries to destroy the rebellion that threatens his throne in the exhilarating sequel to Bonds of Brass. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It did me no good to protest, to point out that the well-thumbed Greek romance novels belonging to the lady of the house would have been just fine with me – they thought they were in my debt, and they thought I was English, so a cardboard box of books left behind by generations of travelers was deposited at the foot of my bed. In a further desperate, uncomprehending gesture of hospitality, they screamed at their teenage son to go and collect every book in English he could find among their neighbors on the little street, and Moorehead’s Gallipoli was part of that dragnet. I was waiting out the healing of a nasty little scrape, and my hosts had kindly installed me and my beagles in a third-floor room with brushed stone walls, a stone floor covered in knitted rugs, and a wooden-shuttered rectangular window overlooking the water. ![]() I hadn’t read the book in decades, and back when I did read it, I read a battered, stained UK paperback while I was staying in a guest house in Canakkale. ![]() Our book today was a very thoughtful gift! The little old lady who reviews the same novel every week for the Silver Spring Scold recently tapped out her pin money onto the kitchen table, put on her finest bonnet, tottered around the corner to her favorite second-hand bookstore, Puss-in-Books, and procured for me a plastic-wrapped copy of Alan Moorehead’s feisty, eloquent 1956 book Gallipoli, a soup-to-nuts history of that doomed World War I campaign. ![]() ![]() ![]() He says "I think there's no television show. That kept me from predicting they would finally realize that they were actually characters in a book. I obviously knew he was a character in a book, but I also knew the plot of the book was that the characters find out they're only extras on a TV show. The main character of the book, who was only an extra on the TV show, says "we're all supposed to think we're real people who found out we were extras on a TV show" but of course the reader knows all of them are actually characters in a book. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack."īut the best part is the end, where it gets even more meta. For example, "Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. ![]() The characters try to figure out when their lives branched off from actual reality by looking for crazy nonsense. This conceit lets the authors poke fun at crazy parts of the real world. And the TV show they're living isn't even well written. But the story is meta: the characters in the book eventually figure out that their lives are sometimes taken over by what they call "the Narrative" and the laws of physics stop working, they take actions that they would not normally take, and people die. It starts as a spin-off of Star Trek, and there are fun easter eggs that reference elements of that show. ![]() |