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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 .
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“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.
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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?
