In case you haven't read Ilona Andrew's Edge series, then the premise is that there are three analogous worlds side-by-side. The Broken is the contemporary no-magic real world we live in. The Weird is a sophisticated, high-magic world with an alternate history resulting in countries like Old Gaul and the Democracy of California. Connecting the two is a patchwork of lawless, lower-magic lands called the Edge. The first two books were set mainly in the Edge in Appalachia and the Mire (Louisiana swamplands) respectively, but this one is a bit different in that the characters travel through multiple areas, mostly on the West Coast, so the setting lends a little less texture to the prose than in the other two books.
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Fate's Edge
Summary: In their third "Edge" series book, Ilona Andrews delivers another well-crafted contemporary fantasy romance story with clever world-building and wonderful characters surrounding around sweet-and-chewy center of Happily Ever After. *Sigh*. If you like this genre, then read this series and this book. They don't disappoint.
In case you haven't read Ilona Andrew's Edge series, then the premise is that there are three analogous worlds side-by-side. The Broken is the contemporary no-magic real world we live in. The Weird is a sophisticated, high-magic world with an alternate history resulting in countries like Old Gaul and the Democracy of California. Connecting the two is a patchwork of lawless, lower-magic lands called the Edge. The first two books were set mainly in the Edge in Appalachia and the Mire (Louisiana swamplands) respectively, but this one is a bit different in that the characters travel through multiple areas, mostly on the West Coast, so the setting lends a little less texture to the prose than in the other two books.
In case you haven't read Ilona Andrew's Edge series, then the premise is that there are three analogous worlds side-by-side. The Broken is the contemporary no-magic real world we live in. The Weird is a sophisticated, high-magic world with an alternate history resulting in countries like Old Gaul and the Democracy of California. Connecting the two is a patchwork of lawless, lower-magic lands called the Edge. The first two books were set mainly in the Edge in Appalachia and the Mire (Louisiana swamplands) respectively, but this one is a bit different in that the characters travel through multiple areas, mostly on the West Coast, so the setting lends a little less texture to the prose than in the other two books.
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