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Oh....how I hate to give a Dunnett book 4 stars instead of 5. And it may yet recover that vaunted fifth star, if later books in the series build successfully on its foundations, but for the meantime this book suffers from what is usually referred to
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“I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”
― The Game of Kings
― The Game of Kings
“The sun peers over the rim of the earth, casting its blaze across Bangkok. It rushes molten over the wrecked tower bones of the old Expansion and the gold-sheathed chedi of the city’s temples, engulfing them in light and heat. It ignites the sharp high roofs of the Grand Palace where the Child Queen lives cloistered with her attendants, and flames from the filigreed ornamentation of the City Pillar Shrine where monks chant 24-7 on behalf of the city’s seawalls and dikes. The blood warm ocean flickers with blue mirror waves as the sun moves on, burning”
― The Windup Girl
― The Windup Girl
“The young girl was waiting in the sky-walker suite’s dayroom when she arrived, sprawled across a massive chair and playing a tap-click game on her questis. She looked to be nine or ten, but sky-walkers tended to be on the short side, so that was only a guess. She looked up as Thalias came through the hatchway, gave the woman a rather suspicious-looking appraisal, then returned her attention to the game. Thalias started to introduce herself, remembered how touchy she’d usually been whenever a new caregiver came to call, and instead took her luggage to her part of the suite”
― Chaos Rising
― Chaos Rising
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