Retribution (Lady Pirates Book 5)

It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet.

Aleksandar Ferdinand, prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battle-torn Stormwalker and a loyal crew of men. Deryn Sharp is a commoner, a girl disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. One that will change both their lives forever. Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia.

The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory. She expects Shrewsbury will be sent into action in the war against Hanover, but instead she finds that she and her new ship are pivotal in a Foreign Office plot to bring the star systems of the French Republic into the war and end the threat of Hanover forever. During the year , ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest to be a giant narwhal.

The United States government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time, receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition which he accepts. They are quickly captured and brought inside the vessel, where they meet its enigmatic creator and commander, Captain Nemo.

In return for her help, she demands a ride back home … to the sky. Caught between a corrupt sheriff and dangerous new enemies from above, Hitch must take his last chance to gain forgiveness from his estranged family, deliver Jael safely home before she flies off with his freewheeling heart, and save his Nebraska hometown from storm-wielding sky pirates. Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jodan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle—a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears.

And as she hurtles toward danger in the cold far North, Lyra never suspects the shocking truth: This Yearling paperback edition includes 15 pages of bonus material: This edition also features artwork by Philip Pullman at the opening of each chapter.

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The collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath the city. Ives and his stalwart friends investigate a string of ghastly crimes: A prime example of the steampunk sub-genre, it posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines.

The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite. A set of perforated punch cards come into the hands of the daughter of an executed Luddite leader who sets out to keep them safe and discover what secrets they contain. After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero.

Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power-and fear-of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession. To save them, Mina and Rhys must race across zombie-infested wastelands and treacherous oceans-and Mina discovers the danger is not only to her countrymen, as she finds herself tempted to give up everything to the Iron Duke.

Alexia Tarabotti, now Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears—leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her into the backwaters of ugly waistcoats, Scotland, she is prepared: When a young lord tries to take advantage of Finley, she fights back.

But no normal Victorian girl has a darker side that makes her capable of knocking out a full-grown man with one punch. The orphaned duke takes her in from the gaslit streets, against the wishes of his band of misfits. And Finley thinks she might finally be a part of something, finally fit in—until a criminal mastermind known as the Machinist threatens to tear the group apart…. The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. Someone else said this book had no storyline, the characters just fly around killing and being killed. They said the main character was underdeveloped and unbelievable.

Being several thousand years old she should have learned a few things along the way and seemed to have learned nothing. While I partially agree with that, there are some revelations regarding the main character that help you understand why she is the way she is. That reviewer must have stopped reading before they got that far or simply did not recognize them for what they are.

Having said that there is not much in the way of character arc for the main character. The only reason she ends up different than when she started is that she made a bet at the end that she lost and one of the other main characters forces her to stick to her word and honor the bet. The book does have a story line, albeit a bit haphazard.

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But that is actually what made it so good. I could not predict where the story was going. Things happened that were totally unexpected. The story ended in a completely different place then I ever would have thought and as I said before, some of it was very painful. The main character is unrelentingly spoiled and selfish and it does get really hard to read after a point. But as I said before, the payoff is great and you do find out why she is the way she is. As one of my favorite actors said in one of my least favorite movies, "The sweet wouldn't be as sweet without the bitter.

And I have read just about all of Sara King's books and highly, highly recommend her stuff!! She is consistently a strong story teller and has terribly riveting stories.

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Her characters are deep as her aim is character driven stories, which I believe she succeeds at. She does brutalize her characters, so beware!! I do mean brutalize!! One person found this helpful. The author, Sara King, says she writes about character and allows the characters to drive the story. I enjoyed the author's Zero series but not this one because the storyline is there a storyline?

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The main character, Attie, is supposed to be many thousands of year old but her personal development must have stopped very early on, remaining spoiled, self-centered, with zero thoughtfulness and zero anger control, and little intelligence. It is inexplicable to me that she seems to have learned nothing in her very long life, therefore for me she was unbelievable. For me, she would have been more believable if she were a teenager, but that would be another story. Fairy is the same way and is supposed to be in her thirties, but equally childish.

Rabbit is the only millennial who seems to have matured with age. That said, the writing is good, the aliens were interesting and the pace is fast and furious. If you can suspend your disbelief over the stupid actions of some of the characters, then you will enjoy this book.

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Sara King is an author of "character-driven" books. In other words, if you actually like pages of techno-babble in Sci Fi books, or five pages of description of a single dress in romance books, Ms. King's books aren't for you. However, if you want to be inside a character's head and heart, to feel and think what they do and why, you've hit the jackpot! I was hooked before I finished the first page, and knew I'd found a new addition to my very short list of favorite authors.

Seven thousand years in the past of the current time, a Potion that extends human lifespan nearly indefinitely was created by Marceau Temple. He dosed himself, his daughter and a few of her friends with the original concoction, making them virtually immortal and indestructible by being able to regenerate destroyed body parts. The remainder of humanity is given a watered-down version of the Potion that merely extends life and has to be taken every years for its effects to endure. Marceau is the unchallenged leader dictator of The Utopia, which encompasses all the known worlds and there is nothing Athenais would love more than to take down the Utopia, her father and destroy the Millennium Potion.

When asked by a trio of shape shifters who have access codes to get them into Marceau's domain to help them do just that, she buys in, even though shifters are nearly extinct due to having been hunted and killed by humans and have extremely high bounties on their heads.

Hiding in a broom closet she overhears a conversation between Attie and Ragnor, Attie's second and lover, that he is also a shifter and the other shifters are his family. Unable to keep the secret to herself, Fairy goes to a bar to find the ship's surgeon to share the secret. Smallfoot betrays his crewmates, kills Attie and turns in the shifters to the Utopian agents for the reward. What ensues is fun and entertaining as Attie and Dallas, Attie's friend, Rabbit, who is another Original, like Attie, and Stuart, who was with the shifters in the bar, but isn't a shifter, but a parasite-like being who can enter a human brain and virtually take over its body attempt to rescue the real shifters.

This book is lighter than most of Ms. King's books, with several of the characters being seriously logic-challenged, but funny anyway. Unlike in her other books, the characters emotions aren't heavily explored, and I found this disappointing, hence the 4-star rating. In spite of this it is, for the most part, an enjoyable read. See all reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.

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