The story moves along with constant twists and turns there is no situation that can't possibly get worse. I hadn't heard of the author before, but his publications seem to tend to the thriller genre, and this influence is clear. The pacing of the novel is as rapidfire as its shifts between narrators. The author takes a page from Robert Jordan-whom he thanks in the acknowledgements-by adding in further, smaller POVs. The author chooses four primary point-of-view characters: a young, blind student named Nyx a thief who stumbles upon an alchemical secret while escaping the mines in which he has been imprisoned a wayward prince living in the shadow of his older and evermore talented twin brother and a knight who has broken his oaths. Part of this is the complexity of the tale. The Starless Crown by James Rollins is a long book by any count clocking in at about 560 pages, it felt longer in the reading. The spoilers are marked in the text and should be easy to skip. Please note: This review contains very mild spoilers (first ~15% of the book). The book's strength lies in its interest in humans' relationship with nature and is a good match for anyone looking for plot-heavy science fantasy. You can find her on Twitter at The Starless Crown by James Rollins weaves together multiple storylines into a tapestry about family in all its forms, nature, and surviving foretold doom. She won the grand prize in the 2019 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards and is currently pursuing an MFA in writing at The New School. On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strange, beautiful, and deadly ways, and uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation.īut with each passing moment, doom draws closer.Aleksandra (Ola) Hill is a Polish-Canadian writer and the founder and editor-in-chief of khōréō, a magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. Her reward is a sentence of death.įleeing into the unknown, she is drawn into a team of outcasts:Ī broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home.Ī drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother’s shadow and claims a purpose of his own.Īn imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact-one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe. An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins.Ī gifted student foretells an apocalypse.
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