Age of Ash

audio cd, 1 pages

Published Feb. 15, 2022 by Hachette B and Blackstone Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-6686-1216-3
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reviewed Age of Ash by Daniel Abraham (Kithamar, #1)

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A nice, quick read. I liked that it jumped back a year after the beginning and then worked until that time again. The characters were OK, maybe a bit standard. Just like the overall story. But I was still entertained. I wonder if we will learn more of Alys and Sammish or if we get to see the same timeframe from a different POV. I'll probably continue the series. Recommended if you enjoy being dropped into a new world without loads of exposition.

Almost magical realism with some interesting twists

This book shares with many fantasy novels a roughly early modern European setting and main characters who are poor, somewhat principled criminals living on the margins of that setting (the latter also reminds me a bit of the author's portrayal of the economically marginalized in the Expanse as well) . There is an aspect of systematic racism in the world, where the poor people just happen to be be one ethnic minority and live on one side of the river. By magical realism I mean that while magical elements are important, the plot is mainly about more mundane things that might get nudged one way or the other by magic (or by luck). All of this is well and good (if not especially unusual in contemporary fantasy), but what made the book a bit more interesting for me was the way it played with the ideas of hero/antihero/main-character/supporting-character in interesting …

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