purplecat: Hand Drawn picture of a Toy Cat (books)
purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote 2017-05-31 08:40 pm (UTC)





I'm assuming the thing that looks like a computer monitor on the left is actually a computer monitor and, in fact, the wizards are actually scientists/engineers/recoverers of lost technology.

Hmm... I'm only about halfway through the first book, but beyond the fact we don't have lots of different races (and I guess no chosen one), I've got wizards, dragons, vaguely late medieval levels of technology, a barbarian, lots of inns, lots of travelling about albeit without a handy map at the front of the book, a war between powerful magical forces (though I suspect that is going to turn out to be not what it seems at first), there isn't a dark lord, as such, though Abremio is shaping up to be one (though, again, I suspect this is going to turn out to be other than it seems). The Steerswomen themselves, at this point, are the only thing that makes it stand out setting-wise from the (admittedly only a handful) other fantasy books I've read, though I suspect the technology angle, as it is explored, will make it all more distinctive.

But, as I say, I'm enjoying it a lot so, you know...

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