It’s a hallucinogenic, sure, but the effects are never described in a way that makes me think of mythology. The only connection is that he has this chemical he uses on people that causes something called Mythmadness, which, again, isn’t an especially useful name. Nothing he does has anything to do with myths. It lends him a certain something that he doesn’t deserve. Why he’s called the Mythmaster is beyond me. He’s also called the Mythmaster, hence the title of the book. This book was a series of fairly interesting ideas tacked on to a 224-page character study of a character that a) I wasn’t that interested in, and b) wasn’t especially remarkable. In fact, the stuff described on the back jacket is a very small part of the novel. It does capture the plot of the book pretty faithfully, but not all of it. I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with the book. What a cover! Crazy red and yellow stuff that looks like I guess it was going to be fire? Several moons? Naked people with a bare minimum of stuff drawn on to make them not naked anymore? It’s all there! Between the Patrol and the sinister Oxon Kaedler he knew his freedom was a mirage. Then a supposedly dead man decided he wanted a piece of the action―and the Mythmaster’s body―and the chase was on. The Patrol that had cashiered him couldn’t catch him now. Who needs a wedding ring when you can pick up a sword? A remarkable and utterly inventive novel from Sharon Cameron, author of THE DARK UNWINDING, which USA TODAY called "spellbindingly imaginative.Stealing lives and peddling them from one end of the galaxy to another for unspeakable uses, the Mythmaster thought he was a free man. Which is only fair, because neither is she.Īs the Red Rook grows bolder and the stakes grow higher, Sophia and René find themselves locked in a tantalizing game of cat and mouse.ĭaring intrigue, delicious romance, and spine-tingling suspense fill the pages of this extraordinary tale from award-winning author Sharon Cameron. But when the search for the Red Rook comes straight to her doorstep, Sophia discovers that her fiancé is not all he seems. Meanwhile, across the sea in the Commonwealth, Sophia Bellamy's arranged marriage to the wealthy René Hasard is the last chance to save her family from ruin. Is the mysterious Red Rook a savior of the innocent or a criminal?
Except for those who disappear from their prison cells, a red-tipped rook feather left in their place. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the new revolution are being put to the blade.
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