Top it all off, or rather, cover it all up, with a gorgeous piece of art by Ignacio Lazcano which is complemented by some smart font treatment. Skyfarer is a novel packed with equal parts entertainment, emotion, energy, homage, and originality. That emanates from the pages quite powerfully and infected me as the reader. Brassey is clearly having fun with this story, these characters, and the world. This is a story that is less concerned with genre boundaries, but more concerned on the fun cool elements in the sibling genres of fantasy and science fiction working together to tell a completely engrossing story. I was also reminded great deal, for all the right reasons, of Chris Wooding’s Tales of the Ketty Jay, which begins with the novel Retribution Falls.
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The world Brassey introduced reminded me a lot of the genre-blending 1980s fantasy entertainments like the movie Krull, the DC Comic book Warlord, or the cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe where air-vessels and lasers coexist with wizards and prophecy. There was such a fun, energetic vibe to the novel. As this is just the first of a series, that turn coupled with just how much fun this novel is, has me excited for me. Brassey peels back the layers and reveals a story and characters with more depth than the surface would lead one to believe. Where the novel takes a nice thoughtful turn is a little over 2/3 through the novel. As Brassey unfolds Azrael’s story, a great deal of complexity is revealed about this young, powerful knight. Azrael is more than just a stand in for those familiar villains.
If a certain dark clad warrior mage with initials KR or whose name rhymes with Varth Dader, then I suspect Brassey’s point was missed because the allusion certainly isn’t subtle and most likely intentional. Lord Azrael, her immediate foil, clad in black armor, looks to subjugate his enemies in his search for the Axiom Diamond. Brassey adds enough balance to her character that her faults make her that much more endearing. Aimee is the likeable protagonist young, headstrong, looking to impress her mentor and do good by her new crew. The race is on between Aimee’s people and the Eternal Order to find the powerful talisman.īrassey packs a lot into this novel, at under 300 pages in mass market he wastes no space, but nothing feels rushed despite the brisk pace of the plot and multiple character revelations. The Elysium harbors the survivors of that conflict and find themselves hunting for the Axiom Diamond.
Aimee bungles a portal spell, putting the Elysium square in Azrael, and the Eternal Order’s cross-hairs as they are pillaging and destroying a nation. At the other end is the aforementioned black knight, who goes by the name of Lord Azrael. He centers the story on two primary characters: Aimee, a portalmage who is part the crew of the airship the Elysium along with the renowned mage Harkon Bright (what a name!). Opposing them are the infamous magic-wielding knights of the Eternal Order and their ruthless commander, Lord Azrael, who will destroy everything in their path…įile Under: Fantasy īrassey introduces his characters in the middle of chaos, allowing readers to view these characters fluctuating between their best and worst, with some of them acting their best in a worst-case situation. When trainee sorceress Aimee de Laurent’s first ever portal-casting goes awry, she and her mentor are thrown into the race to find the gem, on the skyship Elysium. Men have sought for it across many continents for centuries, but in vain. The Axiom Diamond is a mythical relic, with the power to show its bearer any truth they desire. Brassey has written extensively in Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear’s Mongoliad, but here he forges his own world and it is a delightful, fun, and smart novel with Skyfarer, the first novel in The Drifting Lands series.
Seems quite standard fare for a Fantasy adventure, but Joseph Brassey’s Skyfarer is that and so much more.
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A young mage on the cusp of realizing her full powers, a wizened mentor trying to train her, and an empire led by a black-clad powerful knight all vying for an elusive magical item.
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