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Jay Amory
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Publisher | Gollancz | ||
ISBN | 9780575078802 | ||
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Vicky
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Synopsis
The Groundlings are under attack. Approaching in darkness in huge airships, Airborn pirates are raiding refineries and pillaging Groundling factories - taking by force the supplies which used to be offered as a tribute to the winged 'gods'. And the Groundlings are getting ready to defend themselves. Above the clouds, Mr Mordadson is dispatched to Redspire, the heart of the piracy, to solve the problems however necessary and put an end to the piracy ...and taking the armed Airship Cerulean - with Az Gabrielson as Captain - with him. But even on the ship there is unrest. Flight Lieutenant Wallimson hates Az, and plots to do whatever he can to undermine the wingless boy...and on the ground, unrest at Redspire is the last thing on Cassie's mind. The family business has been destroyed by contact with the Airborn, and they scrape a precarious living taking Airborn tourists on tours. But as trouble is stirred up between the Groundlings and Airborn things go from bad to worse for Cassie. And then her father goes missing ...
Review
Book 2 in the Clouded World series by Jay Amory carries on at a relentless pace where now, there is outright rebellion from the Groundlings towards the Airborn people, and into this mix comes the Behemoth crewed by the pirates from the Redspire city, and they are mean and are stealing the Groundlings oil, steel, wood - what ever they can lay their hands on. But they are also on pterine - something akin to cocaine - giving them the feeling of being supermen and all that goes with it.
The drama is fast and furious with Den Grubdollar leaving town with a mysterious red headed Deacon - cassie and her brothers rush to find him. This time Az Gabrielson's brother Michael and his new bride Aurora are involved because they decided to go down below the clouds for their honeymoon!
I feel that Jay Amory has given a lot of thought about the different aspects of his story and the psychology of his characters that are having to deal with trust, jealousy, anger, revenge and of course, love. He has mixed it all up and made them all feel very very real - we feel when they get hurt emotionally and physically or fall in love, and in the dog fights between the Behemoth crew, hyped up on pterine and the Groundling roughnecks as very new pilots on ancients flying planes - very similar to our byplanes of WW1 and Spitfires of WW2, we can wonder is this what it was like for our pilots in wars in modern times, can the roughnecks win? Heroes and heroines - it's a fantastic mix and very vividly written.
But and it is a but, has Mr Mordadson become a traitor or is he a spy on behalf of the president of the Silver Sanctum?
I again enjoyed this book to the max and look forward to books 3 and 4.
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