Aliette de Bodard
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| Title | : | The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen #1) |
| Author | : | Aliette de Bodard |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 402 pages |
| Published | : | August 20th 2015 by Gollancz (first published August 18th 2015) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. Paranormal. Angels. Science Fiction. Steampunk |
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A superb murder mystery, on an epic scale, set against the fall out – literally – of a war in Heaven.Paris has survived the Great Houses War – just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens continue to live, love, fight and survive in their war-torn city, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over the once grand capital.
House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power games, lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.
Within the House, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen, a alchemist with a self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells from the Far East. They may be Silverspires’ salvation. They may be the architects of its last, irreversible fall…
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| Original Title: | The House of Shattered Wings |
| ISBN: | 1473212553 (ISBN13: 9781473212558) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781473212558 |
| Series: | Dominion of the Fallen #1 |
| Setting: | Paris(France) |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2016), British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel (2015) |
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The story opens up with a fallen angel being dissected by scavengers. The land is in ruins as a result of the great war, and angel essence is a much sought after drug. Selene, the head of House Silverspires, saves Isabelle and one of the scavengers, Phillipe. Selene can tell there is something different about Phillipe and intends to keep a close eye on him.Since the war, the houses have never been too friendly, and when events bring the houses to a conference at House of Silverspires, all hellReally... what the fucking fuck is this shit? Sorry for all the strong words but... I really have NO IDEA whatsoever what I was reading apart from a dhiarrea of words. Lots of words to explain lots of nothings and no movings forwards. So fallen angels. Wars on heavens. People who steal angels parts and blood for drugs and to do magics with it. And murders. And a guy who is human but no and is sth more but also all of before but no and something more but no but yes but no but yes but who knows
Aliette de Bodard crafts a dystopian world in an alternate history where The Great War led to a earth-shattering conclusion forever crippling the civilized world. With its roots in fallen angels, where there is a market in their very skin, bones, breath, and essence (an addictive ingestible form of angelic power that gives a short-term boost in abilities while creating dependence and destruction to ones lungs), the backstory and setting of The House of Shattered Wings is dark indeed.The story is
SynopsisIn a ruined Paris, fallen angels live together in rival Houses - each vying for power in the crumbling, poisonous city that was brought down by their own war. The fighting has given way to politics but the threat to life is still very real. Angels are hunted for their magical essence, the house leaders scheme and plot in elaborately polite power-games, and the dark deeds of the past will not lie quietly in their graves.House Silverspires stands tremulous. Its magic is ailing; the
ARC provided by NetGalleyFallen angels have been a popular trope in the last few years, sometimes centered around various versions of Miltons smilingly cruel and beautiful Lucifer, and so it is here. As Morningstar, he was the leader of House Silverspires, one of a number of Houses in an alternate Paris nearly destroyed by a magical battle called the Great War. Then twenty years ago he vanished, and his student Selene took over the House, whose fortunes have been falling ever since.The book is
Beautiful setting - an alternate-history Paris, devastated by wars both terrestrial and magical, decaying but still filled with terrible beauty. Gangs run the streets, and others cluster to Houses for protection - Houses run with ruthless amorality by fallen angels.Biblical, Vietnamese, and Greek myths mix beautifully with original fantastic elements in this world.Here, Philippe, a Vietnamese man brought to Paris as a conscripted soldier and then abandoned to the streets, is brought against his
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