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The Drifting Lands are continents floating in an endless sky. Still an enjoyable ride, and worth reading if you can manage to channel your inner twelve-year-old.Ī light space fantasy book that's action-packed and inventive but feels extremely derivative. For all the high melodrama and pyrotechnics, the novel didn’t quite resonate with me on an emotional level the way it seemed to want to, like some of the connective tissue that grows when subtlety and nuance are employed was missing. There’s nothing in this novel I would describe as bad – even the corny, over-inflated dialogue feels appropriate for the tone and atmosphere of the novel. The individual action set pieces are exciting, though they tend to run together a bit due to the author’s unwillingness to hit the brakes. The novel’s pace is the definition of breakneck Brassey doesn’t even know where to find the pause button. There are space battles, prophecies, mystical swords, spellcasting and pretty much everything else you might expect from this particular mash-up of genres. The story centers around Aimee, a young “portalmage” who accidently drops her starship into the middle of a warzone, where the Vader-like Lord Azrael of the Eternal Order is on a genocidal rampage to recover a mythical gem known as the Axiom Diamond. It’s highly derivative, to be sure, but uniquely so. This sword and sorcery space adventure stands apart from everything else currently out there in the SFF market, ignoring trends in favor of the author’s personal tastes. No one who reads Skyfarer will ever accuse Joseph Brassey of being hip this novel is so unabashedly dorky, it reads like something dreamed by a Mountain Dew guzzling twelve-year-old hooked on Star Wars and Final Fantasy. The story centers around Aimee, a young “porta 3.5 stars.
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Opposing them are the infamous magic-wielding knights of the Eternal Order and their ruthless commander, Lord Azrael, who will destroy everything in their path.ģ.5 stars. When trainee sorceress Aimee de Laurent's first ever portal-casting goes awry, she and her mentor are thrown into the race to find the gem, on the skyship Elysium. Men have sought for it across many continents for centuries, but in vain. The Axiom Diamond is a mythical relic, with the power to show its bearer any truth they desire. When trainee sorceress Aimee de Laurent's first ever portal-casting goes awry, she an An apprentice sorceress is dragged into a vicious quest across an endless sky in this Star Wars-inspired space fantasy An apprentice sorceress is dragged into a vicious quest across an endless sky in this Star Wars-inspired space fantasy The Axiom Diamond is a mythical relic, with the power to show its bearer any truth they desire.