![]() Reading this again - I've been reading and enjoying later books in this series - I was surprised by how much I liked it. ![]() ![]() Between the culture and the combination of (some) technology with more pre-industrial social structures, the setting was different and colourful to many other fantasy landscapes I've read about. Some of the twists took me by surprise, and it was interesting. I found something formal, almost stilted, about the tone, but I liked Zoe and enjoyed her story enough to read it in one gulp. However, at first it is less a fantasy narrative than a story of a young woman who, having escaped from the king's representative who brought her to the city after the death of her father, goes to live with the poor by the river.The first time I read this (2011), I didn't warm to Zoe, or the narrative tone quite as much as I've warmed to some of Shinn's other heroines and narratives. ![]() An interesting, tropical (or so I surmised) fantasy of elemental powers, markets, car-like vehicles and political intrigue. ![]()
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