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Consorts of Heaven (Hidden Empire #2)
by
Jaine Fenn (Goodreads Author)
When a naked, amnesiac stranger is found outside a remote highland village, he is taken in by Kerin, a widow whose unconventional ways are tolerated because her son Damaru is "skytouched." All skytouched are able to affect matter, and are tested by the Beloved Daughter, the living goddess who rules the world from the City of Light. If he is found worthy, Damaru will become...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
June 1st 2009
by Gollancz
(first published May 21st 2009)
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One of the big awaited sf novels of 09, Consorts of Heaven came with very high expectations and it delivered and more.
A parallel book with last year excellent debut Principles of Angels and taking place on a low tech theocratic planet, but with a twist which is made quite clear later on.
But first and foremost it is a novel of two people: Kerin the strong widowed mother of 15 year old Damaru who is a "skyfool" which essentially means that he can do magic; Damaru is autistic and until his magic...more
A parallel book with last year excellent debut Principles of Angels and taking place on a low tech theocratic planet, but with a twist which is made quite clear later on.
But first and foremost it is a novel of two people: Kerin the strong widowed mother of 15 year old Damaru who is a "skyfool" which essentially means that he can do magic; Damaru is autistic and until his magic...more
The first half of this book reads like a fantasy, but it's actually science fiction, though taking place on an isolated, backwards and repressed world. Kerin's sky-touched son, Damaru, (autistic with special talents) finds a naked, unconscious, amnesiac man on the edge of the swamp. Kerin, a widow, nurses him back to physical health and begins to dream of a better future with him. He names himself Sais - stanger, outsider - and proceeds to try and recover lost memories. He remembers nothing of h...more
On a superstitious and low-technology world Kerin, a resourceful widow just able to maintain her status, discovers a man who seems to have both fallen from the sky and lost his memory.
In such a distant place the only answer seems to be that this stranger, who is named Sais, must join Kerin and her sky-touched son, Damaru, on a lengthy pilgrimage to the home of living goddess who rules this world. For there her son is due to potentially become a Consort for this deity.
On this journey, from which...more
In such a distant place the only answer seems to be that this stranger, who is named Sais, must join Kerin and her sky-touched son, Damaru, on a lengthy pilgrimage to the home of living goddess who rules this world. For there her son is due to potentially become a Consort for this deity.
On this journey, from which...more
I really loved this novel. We follow the tale of a man named Sais and a woman named Kerin, from the moment where Sais is discovered by Kerin's son, to the awesome twist at the end of the novel. This novel is the second in the series, behind Fenn's debut novel Principles of Angels. That book is set in a city-state, and although it's been a while since I read it, I remember massively enjoying it. It had advanced technologies in it, but wasn't really focusing on them, and ended up feeling like a ne...more
Yet again I had not read the first one.
A well constructed book. Again bits to pick at.
Can hardly imagine that the drove was financially viable.
Was horrified when the answer was the Sidhe. I have read other Sidhe books (when much younger) and there are better ones. When the Sidhe were mentioned it immediately made me think of junior fiction and that ruined the rest of the experience. It comes with baggage.
Readable but not more than once and I have no interest in reading the first one
*Warning - there is a spoiler in this review!*
Wonderful world building in this - a mixture of fantasy and scifi that I thoroughly enjoyed. It follows the journey of a man who wakes with no memory going from the backward humble village to the city, recovering himself along the way and realising that the goddess-like powers of the primitive religion on this world are actually alien technology that he himself is familiar with. The supposed deification of 'sky-fools' - those with a special talent to...more
Wonderful world building in this - a mixture of fantasy and scifi that I thoroughly enjoyed. It follows the journey of a man who wakes with no memory going from the backward humble village to the city, recovering himself along the way and realising that the goddess-like powers of the primitive religion on this world are actually alien technology that he himself is familiar with. The supposed deification of 'sky-fools' - those with a special talent to...more
This is one of those rare books that does manage to merge SF and fantasy well without making it awkward. The characters are good, the story is good...I just wish there was some more explication and detail, but you can't always get what you want.
I'll be keeping my eye out for Fenn's work in the future, though, as I definitely want to know how the larger plot of her series unfolds.
I'll be keeping my eye out for Fenn's work in the future, though, as I definitely want to know how the larger plot of her series unfolds.
Just finished Consorts of Heaven based on a suggestion from Liviu at the Fantasy Book Critic (whom I follow fairly religiously). I was so pleasantly suprised that Guardians of Paridise will most definately be purchased!! Good job Jaine Fenn!!
BOOOOORING
do not read - waste of time
not bad - just booooring
nothing happens
while reading it I couldnt care less about characters or plot
McCaffrey and Zimmer Bradley wrote such stuff in the early 80s. just better
do not read - waste of time
not bad - just booooring
nothing happens
while reading it I couldnt care less about characters or plot
McCaffrey and Zimmer Bradley wrote such stuff in the early 80s. just better
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it's also far harder to track down. Jaine Fenn has had numerous short stories professionally published, some of which appear in the collection 'Downside Girls'. Her Hidden Empire sequence, published by Gollancz, starts with the novel 'Principles of Angels', and isn't over yet.
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