![]() ![]() When I first received the book for review and saw cover quotes from Brandon Sanderson and Lawrence Watt-Evans (two of my all-time favorites), I knew I was in for a good read, I just didn’t know how good. GoodreadsĪn 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. ![]() ![]() 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. She is happy to be neglected so she can secretly pursue her illicit passion for math and science. Born with a deformed hand and utter lack of the family’s blood magic, Isabelle is despised by her cruel father. Suspended by magic, they float in the upper layers of Caelum’s clouds. Remnants of a shattered world, these vast disks of soaring stone may be a thousand miles across. High above it are the Risen Kingdoms, occupying flying continents called cratons. Caelum is an uninhabitable gas giant like Jupiter. The Overview: A polymath princess and her faithful musketeer must unravel the plot of a thousand-year-old madman in order to save an a foreign kingdom from a disastrous civil war. ![]()
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