Loved it!!!!!

On of the best books I have ever read it helped me get though lock down. I recommend it to anyone with time to spare. A wonderful plot and amazing characters. Beautifully read.

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A perfect blend of magic and technology

I was lucky enough to recieve a review copy of this book. The story is excellent and brought alive through fantastic narration. The book introduces you to a number of characters all with very different powers and technologies and these are all tied together into an amazingly rich story. The only "weakness" of the book is the number of very different characters and jumping between the differing perspectives is a little disorientating to begin with. However, the payoff as the story progresses more than makes up for this.

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good narration with interesting characters

really enjoyed the narration. all the characters where interesting and always wanted to learn more.
the story was abit hard to follow as it jumps from character to character but that i think adds to the intrigue and I'm invested in alot of the characters. i look forward to the next book, which I am starting now

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Loved it!

Good variety of characters, very interesting story line. I sat in my car when it was finished not knowing what to next, great ending. Can't wait for book 2 to find out what happens next.

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Fantastic World Building

I don't normally review books on here outside of slapping a star rating on them but this book definitely deserves one!

Now for full transparency I wasn't so enamoured by this book alone, I thought the world and characters were interesting but there wasn't much sense of urgency or a particularly clear end goal for most of the characters (up until the last 5 minutes or so for some of them) but then I listened to the second book (Awakenings) and I was blown away, the world building done in this book and getting to know the characters so well really made everything in that book so much more intense and exciting.
But that's enough about Awakenings for now!
I've just finished my first re-read and now truly appreciate how well presented everything is to prevent from overwhelming you with information and make you really connect with all the characters.

The story follows about 9 main characters and the narrator (Rhys David) does an incredible job, even the smallest character has a distinct voice and he really brings the world to life.
There are even a couple of moments where I did actually laugh out loud because he sold the delivery of a line so well that it was so much better than if I had just read it.

There's not too much to say about the plot as it really does just feel more like an introduction to who all the major players in the story are going to be and what the rules of the world are but it never gets bogged down in exposition and moves along at quite a reasonable pace.

The setting is sort of Steampunk-y I guess, it's set in a world thousands of years after a cataclysmic event that killed everyone in the world so whilst most people are living a relatively medieval (Knights, Kings, bowmen etc) there's also Chroniclers who are trying to unlock the mysteries of all the ancient technology laying about.
Some people have the ability to Syphon, to draw the energy out of the environment and use it (predominantly) to augment their attacks and weapons.
There's also a relatively modern police force with detectives and everything.
It's a fun blend of elements and they all work really well together.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone, it's a nice, relaxed (for the most part) story that lays the foundation for an incredible series.

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