Mass Market Paperback, 503 pages
English language
Published Feb. 1, 2003 by Warner Books.
This was an enjoyable standalone book. I wouldn't waste my time with the rest of the trilogy though, it's not very good.
A good, fast-paced fantasy novel which explores topics of technology and revenge. The author avoids the leaden plotting of many fantasy series by having segments for each storyline in every chapter, thus keeping the plot flowing instead of the serial wrenching of one chapter per storyline.
Surprisingly engaged with how technology works and how it affects cultures, the plot structure also allows for good parallelism, which furthers the themes of the story.
