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A Flight of Broken Wings (The Aeriel Chronicles #1)
by
Nupur Chowdhury
270 pages
Published
(first published August 17th 2018)
Edition Language: English
Series: The Aeriel Chronicles #1
BLURB: Six hundred years ago, humanity rose up in revolt against the Aeriels, who were driven from earth and back into their homeland of Vaan after a bloody and glorious war.
Eight years ago, Ruban’s home was destroyed and his family murdered by an Aeriel. When a new Aeriel threat looms over Ragah, the capital city of Vandram, Ruban Kinoh must do everything in his power to avenge his family's past and protect the future of his country.
Which is hard enough without being saddled with a pretty and pompous aristocrat, who seems as useless as he is vain. Faced with a conspiracy that might cost humanity its hard-won freedom, and accompanied by the bejeweled and glitter-clad Ashwin Kwan, Ruban begins his journey into a land where the past and the future intertwine.
My rating: 3.5 winged stars
In Vandran, Ruban Kinoh is the best Hunter of Aeriels, the murderous winged monsters that murderered his family and terrorize the country. Now, there are talks about a new formula that perfected the best weapon against them -Sif- and is his duty to protect it. Nevermind he has to endure Ashwing, some annoying young lordling that is babbling to much to the press and apparently knows too much .
.....................“Sif, as you know, is the world’s greatest and fastest conductor of energy. It’s the only substance on earth that can sap an Aeriel’s energy faster than its body can replenish it. Sifblades kill Aeriels not by means of any physical wounds, but simply by drawing the energy – their life-source – out of their bodies faster than they can recharge their batteries..........
This is a bit of confusing literary gender to put in, because there are jeeps, taxis, facebook, Jack Sparrow, and cellphones, but not planes so far in 2017. And the Aeriels -winged beings made of energy- are from another dimension . So, kind of alternate reality/urban fantasy with aliens?
Ruban is a character with many faults, and is an unreliable narrator. Stubborn, prejudiced, but what I find strange is that he is so impulsive because I do not think he would have survived as many years as a hunter in that way, especially when he continues to forget to walk armed to the teeth.
..........In his profession, he could not help but feel a perpetual sense of being under siege. It was why he was so good at his job. Emancipation, to him, was the stuff of history books and political speeches, not the reality in which he lived and breathed every day..........
Ashwin is also a non-reliable narrator; and that makes them more believable in my opinion.
On the other hand, there is a lot, much to need to know about worldbuilding. The information regarding the government, the country. And about Vaan and where the Aeriels came from, not much is known apart from the hundreds of years, /SPOILER--->and the reproduction by feathers? is quite confusing....<---SPOILER
Besides dealing with winged beings, I would install sentinel guards in high places and I am also intrigued that there are no helicopters, drones, or machine guns. /SPOILER--->Another thing that catches my
attention is how obtuse Ruban is never imagining that with the
information he has, he does not suspect or be more paranoid about the
presence of more enemy spies than it is to be human. <---SPOILER/
And about Aeriels: /SPOILER---> if they are made of energy, how is during the fight with the queen there is blood and gore??<---SPOILER/
To sum up - Is entertaining, have few weird phrases, nice idea, need some work, will read the sequel.
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Romance? Nop.
Sex? Some scenes of implicit sex.
Languages? some f-bombs.
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No se por qué me hizo acordar de estas imagenes de seres alados o dioses en la historia. Todo el mundo sabe que no leo cosas relacionados con ángeles, que es una cuestión personal, asi que puedo decir que estos seres NO son ángeles, son seres de otra dimensión que sucede que ser inmortales y por eso fueron tratados como dioses , y que poseen poderes de llamar relampagos y bolas de fuego. han sostenido una lucha con la humanidad por un monton de años y los cazadores son aclamados por sus muertes. Cuando el material de las armas parece que sufrira una mejora, es cuando se habla de robo de la formula, asi que el cazador empieza a actuar como detective, junto a un joven noble de otro pueblo - lo que le fastidia bastante- pero este posee informacion valiosa. Asi van descubriendo e investigando y desenrollando una madeja . Es entretenido, aunque me falla en entregarme informacion de estos aliens, y tambien en algunas incogruencias de la civilizacion que cuenta con twitter pero no aviones ni ametralladoras.
Igual leeria la continuación.
Muchas gracias a la autora por darme un ejemplar digital de su obra.
Igual leeria la continuación.
Muchas gracias a la autora por darme un ejemplar digital de su obra.
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