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How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
- Arithmancy and Anarchy: The Thorne Chronicles Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Nicole Poole
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
Rory Thorne is a princess with 13 fairy blessings, the most important of which is to see through flattery and platitudes. As the eldest daughter, she always imagined she'd inherit her father's throne and govern the interplanetary Thorne Consortium.
Then, her father is assassinated, her mother gives birth to a son, and Rory is betrothed to the prince of a distant world.
When Rory arrives in her new home, she uncovers a treacherous plot to unseat her newly betrothed and usurp his throne. An unscrupulous minister has conspired to name himself Regent to the minor (and somewhat foolish) prince. With only her wits and a small team of allies, Rory must outmaneuver the Regent and rescue the prince.
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairy tale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination - how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.
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- Jumpin' Bean
- 13-10-19
Complex and delightful
An interesting and imaginative story set somewhere in the multiverse where magic and science happily coexist.
Sympathetic characters with a good supporting cast.
Well rounded tale, with a beginning, middle and end, with a door left ajar for future developments.
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- N. Bennett
- 25-10-19
Does what it says on the tin.
An enjoyable combination of space opera and magic. We follow the heroine from when she is a young child and learn more about the world as she does. But we're not only in her head so we see the consequences of the events that unfurl on adults. The lightheartedness of the title does cover the wars, insurrections, coups and assassination attempts that take place, and some events are quite devastating fairly early on but the history style narration removes one from most of the horror of what is happening. There are worlds that are recognisable from fantasy and from modern life which are all well realised. The plot moves along briskly but I didn't feel it was rushed. It works well as a standalone book, so I'm not sure where the next part of the Thorne Chronicles will go.
I listened to this as an audio book, and luckily there were not too many exotic names to try and remember so it was an easy listen. The narrator's voice worked well for the chronicle style of the story. And was very amusing when it comes to the interpretation of the thirteenth fairy's gift, where we can hear the original words and what was actually meant.
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- Ronald
- 17-04-24
No worries it's quite different and enjoyable
Little to comment with out spoiling a good listen to a good story thank you
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- Emma
- 12-02-24
Fun, entertaining
What starts as a fairytale parody turns into a space opera with computer-hacking. The politics were a bit simple, but there were enough twists to keep me interested and the strong cast of side-characters stole the story.
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- karl
- 31-07-24
Not as good as I was hoping
This story has so much potential but is not well developed. The author seems to tell rather than show with alot of the story. Assassinations, wars... we don't get to see any of it, just a mention that it happened to move what little plot there is along.
Super convenient, no real hardships or consenquences.
To be honest 'multiverse' in the title has confused me as theres no description of what that means in this world, and the author definately has not followed the actual definition of the word. I also honestly forgot that they were in space or that this was supposed to be a space opera!
I found the MC to be a boring character with no arc to speak of. Things just sort of happened to her to get the story to move along (which is quite slow anyway). There were certain plot threads that seem to just get dropped mid-story just to be hastily tied up in the ending! Characters that had POV chapters at the beginning just sort of disappear and don't get brought back.
There is a super convenient, summary ending unrelated to anything we've been building up to, and I don't think it answered even the title of the book, let alone the questions I was left with at the end.
Quite a disappointing story and I wish I had DNF'd instead of hoping it would get better because it should have been a book I enjoyed but it was poorly executed.
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