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Praise for THE RISE OF THE IRON MOON: 'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.' Daily Mail 'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers. This is Philip Pullman with a dose of benzedrine. Hold on to your hat and let yourself get carried away.' Tom Holt, SFX Praise for Stephen Hunt: 'A ripping yarn ! the story pounds along ! constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked ! the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun' SFX 'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels' Lisa Tuttle, The Times 'The characters are convincing and colourful, but the real achievement is the setting, a hellish take on Victorian London ! the depth and complexity of Hunt's vision makes it compulsive reading for all ages' Guardian 'Wonderfully assured ! Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension' Time Out 'Studded with invention' Independent 'Rich and colourful !keeps you engrossed !a confident, audacious novel' SFX 'Like a magpie, Stephen Hunt has plucked colourful events from history and politics and used them for inspiration ! Hunts tells his full-blooded tale with lip-smacking relish, revealing a vivid, often gruesome imagination ! [it] brims with originality and, from the first, its chase-filled plot never lets up' Starburst
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From the author of The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves comes a thrilling new adventure set in the same Victorian-style world. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman and Susanna Clarke. Born into captivity as a product of the Royal Breeding House, friendless orphan Purity Drake suddenly finds herself on the run with a foreign vagrant after accidentally killing one of her guards. Her strange rescuer claims he is on the run himself from terrible forces who mean to enslave the Kingdom of Jackals as they conquered his own nation. Purity doubts his story, until reports begin to filter through from Jackals' neighbours of the terrible Army of Shadows, marching across the continent and sweeping all before them. But there's more to Purity than meets the eye. As Jackals girds itself for war against an army of near-unkillable beasts serving an ancient evil with a terrible secret, it soon becomes clear that their only hope is a strange little royalist girl and the last, desperate plan of an escaped slave.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The Rise of the Iron Moon,
By Tami Brady "Whole Health" (Calgary, Canada) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME) (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Rise of the Iron Moon (Hardcover)
The Kingdom of Jackals and the Quatérshift must now work together to defeat a common foe. The Army of Shadows has come to strip the land and enslave the population. Those that remain will be nothing more than sheep to be used as a food source by the masters.A small band of unlikely heroes is the only hope. Molly Templar, a celestial fiction writer who suddenly starts having visions of the heximachina. Purity Drake, quite mad, yet with royal blood running through her veins. Kyorin, an alien in hiding, hoping to save what was left of his own world from the Army of Shadows. Magic and machinery must come together and secrets too dark to believe must come to light. Not having read the first two books in this series, I felt a little lost at first. It took a little time before I got a feel for the world and began getting into the characters of the story. After that point, though, I found it hard to put the book down. Absolutely loved the twists and turns and the surprising directions and mis-directions the action took.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Well worth the read,
This review is from: The Rise of the Iron Moon (Hardcover)
It's rare to find a novelist who attempts so many things in a fantasy novel as this, but Stephen Hunt dives into the pages of Rise of the Iron Moon with an abandon that might just be a little bit scary, and it reads as if he doesn't come up for air until he had finished. So where to start? Well, although marketed as fantasy, the novel might just as well be sold as science fiction, because it blends elements of both. This runs the danger that fantasy fans will dislike the SF elements while you can reverse that for science fiction fans. However, discerning readers who venture outside the genre will know that what Hunt is attempting - and largely succeeding with here - is a high adventure tale with post modern echoes of the classic pulps, blended with a well executed plot brim full of twists.Rise of the Iron Moon is a continuation of what has gone on before, in the earlier books, as far as world building is concerned, but has a stand-alone story (a trick I read in an interview he was taught by fellow British author, Terry Pratchett). An excellent edition to the opus and I am fascinated to discover where the Jackelian series move on from here. One gripe. Would benefit from a map. Please.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Phenomenal fantasy action,
This review is from: Rise Of The Iron Moon (Paperback)
I would recommend this fast-paced novel to just about anyone (whether you love the genre or not). Having read The Rise of the Iron Moon in a couple of days, I couldn't believe the third Kingdom of Jackals novel would be as good as the second book, but Stephen Hunt has proved me wrong.It has at the heart of its book the story of a girl, Purity Drake, who has to escape from a prison run by parliament to contain the children of the old regime. She has the bad luck to escape during an invasion, though, with a horde of what is initially believed to be polar barbarians sweeping down on the good guys. In the end, events prove a lot more complex, and without revealing too many spoilers, she is swept up on a grand adventure. The novel brings a lot of tension to the party, and I dare you to read this without getting swept up in the action and excitement. Great, taut plotting, fully rounded characters and a truly unique world all go to making this one of my favourites so far. Give The Rise of the Iron Moon a go, you won't be disappointed.
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