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| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Aether Chronicles #1 |
| Characters: | Noli, V (Steven), Kevighn Silver |
Suzanne Lazear
Paperback | Pages: 408 pages Rating: 3.56 | 1224 Users | 236 Reviews
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| Title | : | Innocent Darkness (The Aether Chronicles #1) |
| Author | : | Suzanne Lazear |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 408 pages |
| Published | : | August 8th 2012 by Flux (first published January 1st 2012) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Steampunk. Young Adult. Fantasy. Romance. Paranormal. Fairies |
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Wish. Love. Desire. Live.Sixteen-year-old Noli Braddock's hoyden ways land her in an abusive reform school far from home. On mid-summer's eve she wishes to be anyplace but that dreadful school. A mysterious man from the Realm of Faerie rescues her and brings her to the Otherworld, only to reveal that she must be sacrificed, otherwise, the entire Otherworld civilization will perish.
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Innocent Darkness is a story about Noli, a girl who lost her social status and her chances for a good marriage when her father disappeared, and is forced to go to a boarding school for troubled girls, from where she is later taken to Faery to become the human sacrifice that will save the entire realm. She is found and taken by the queens ruthless huntsman Kevighn. He somehow falls in love with Noli even though shes just one of many girls hes kidnapped and brought to his queen to be killed. Nolis*headdesk* Why oh why do I do this to myself? I knew about halfway through that this was going to be one of those books that I was going to regret reading, but did I stop reading? Nope! That's because I still have this ridiculous need to reach the end of a book in the vain hopes that the story will get better, the characters will be less annoying, that it will stop being so gosh darned feeble and tedious. BUT THEY NEVER DO!!!To be fair this book started out ok. It was never going to be amazing,
Okay, so, this one's another hard one for me to nail down in order to review. There was a lot I liked about it, and on the other hand, there were a few bits that just didn't quite ring true. However, I did find it compulsively readable, and by the end, I knew I was going to be reading that second book. "Innocent Darkness" is a fun look at alternate history, and will probably be great to get younger readers started on the steampunk subgenre."Innocent Darkness" is pseudo-Steampunk, or maybe
Innocent Darkness is a story about Noli, a girl who lost her social status and her chances for a good marriage when her father disappeared, and is forced to go to a boarding school for troubled girls, from where she is later taken to Faery to become the human sacrifice that will save the entire realm. She is found and taken by the queens ruthless huntsman Kevighn. He somehow falls in love with Noli even though shes just one of many girls hes kidnapped and brought to his queen to be killed. Nolis
The cover of Innocent Darkness called to the cover whore inside me and she immediately had to have it. I mean look at it~ in all of its steampunk finery. As the first book in the Aether Chronicles I went into this book expecting a steampunk novel with a fantasy twist. What I got was a young adult fantasy with a steampunk mention. I am noticing a trend in YA novels that seem to cross multiple genres and I am personally not happy about it. It waters down the genres and has me as a consumer leery
How does the saying go? Good Steampunk is hard to find?Ok. So maybe thats not precisely how it goes, but sadly, that fact doesnt make the statement any less true.Ill admit, Innocent Darkness first caught my eye because of its cover. Adorned with gears, a dirigible, the obligatory corset/pocket watch/brass-n-leather goggles combo, and a rebellious looking heroine ready to flout Victorian-era conventions, this cover said to me, Hi there. Im steampunk. Grab a cuppa and read me. And I said, Thank
Egalley thanks to Flux BooksPretty good read which strongly reminded me of Melissa Marr's fae series. However, I think the cover misleads you in a lot of ways. I thought this would be steampunk, but it's only slightly steampunk-ish.Noli is a young mechanic and a daughter of an impoverished lady, who is strongly opposed to her doing any sort of manual work. When she gets into trouble flying a car she just fixed without a permit and a license, the police gives her a choice - to pay for her crimes
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