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Jack Cloudie (Jackelian #5)
by
Stephen Hunt (Goodreads Author)
A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Secrets of the Fire Sea.
Thanks to his father's gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets and trying to survive as a pickpocket, desperate to graft enough coins to keep him and his two younger brothers fed. Following a daring bank...more
Thanks to his father's gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets and trying to survive as a pickpocket, desperate to graft enough coins to keep him and his two younger brothers fed. Following a daring bank...more
Paperback, 412 pages
Published
July 7th 2011
by Harper Voyager
(first published February 1st 2011)
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War brews between the Kingdom of Jackals and Cassarabia. A young thief named Jack Keats is pressed into service on an experimental airship, the Iron Patridge after a botched bank job. A Cassarabian slave named Omar learns of his true parentage, only to have it stolen from him. As Jack and Omar learn what it means to be men, will war be averted or will the two world powers engage in a conflict that will destroy them both?
Jack Cloudie fleshes out two aspects of Stephen Hunt's Jackalian saga that h...more
Jack Cloudie fleshes out two aspects of Stephen Hunt's Jackalian saga that h...more
This is one of Stephen Hunt's steampunk adventures, this time featuring two young protagonists who happen to be on opposing sides of an oncoming war. One is an "English" boy from a good family that has fallen on hard times. To get his two younger brothers out of the work house (a nasty Dickensian sort of place), he joins the Royal Aeronautical Navy as a Jack Cloudie, a sailor on a floating ship.
The other protagonist is a slave boy who is freed just before his owner's family is attacked. Through...more
The other protagonist is a slave boy who is freed just before his owner's family is attacked. Through...more
Three things annoyed me about this book. The first, which the editor really should have caught, is that Hunt consistently writes "chord" when he means "cord". (There are a few other incorrect homonyms as well, but that one occurs repeatedly.)
The second is that he seems to think that when writing steampunk it's necessary to throw in the words "crystal", "clockwork", "steam" and "punch cards" more or less at random, even when they make no particular technological sense.
The third is the treatment...more
The second is that he seems to think that when writing steampunk it's necessary to throw in the words "crystal", "clockwork", "steam" and "punch cards" more or less at random, even when they make no particular technological sense.
The third is the treatment...more
This is the fifth book in Stephen Hunt's Jackelian series (named after country from which many of the protagonists in the series hail; it's obviously an analogue to 18th-19th Century Britain). I've read and enjoyed the previous four volumes and I really liked this one as well. One of the things I really appreciate is that while the books share a setting and occasional characters, they're all very different in terms of the stories they're telling -- sometimes more like an H. Rider Haggard adventu...more
Thanks to his father’s gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets trying to graft enough coin to keep him and his two younger brothers fed.
When a daring bank robbery goes awry, Jack narrowly escapes the scaffold on to be pressed into the Royal Aerostatical Navy. Assigned to the most useless airship in the fleet, serving under a captain who’s is most probably mad, Jack seems to be bound for almost certain death in the far-away deserts of Cassarabia.
Meanwhile on the other side...more
When a daring bank robbery goes awry, Jack narrowly escapes the scaffold on to be pressed into the Royal Aerostatical Navy. Assigned to the most useless airship in the fleet, serving under a captain who’s is most probably mad, Jack seems to be bound for almost certain death in the far-away deserts of Cassarabia.
Meanwhile on the other side...more
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This is the 5th adventure set in the Jackelian series. After reading the 1st book in the series,The Court of the Air, I became addicted and bought all of them. They continued to get better with each book. However, I don't think i feel the same about this one.
It's a great read, but I have a couple complaints. Well, one main complaint. Gone are the concurrently running multiple storylines that I so loved. There are only 2 storylines in this story. That is most likely a plus for many readers, but...more
It's a great read, but I have a couple complaints. Well, one main complaint. Gone are the concurrently running multiple storylines that I so loved. There are only 2 storylines in this story. That is most likely a plus for many readers, but...more
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** spoiler alert ** I read the first Jackelian book, The Court of the Air, on my honeymoon, and ever since then I've been a Stephen Hunt fan. Each new book has been better than the last, and when I saw that Jack Cloudie was following on the heels of Secrets of the Fire Sea, I was delighted.
And then I read it, and everything fell apart.
I am so disappointed and furious, it actually hurts. I've really loved Hunt's other works, and when he spoke out against the anti-SFF prejudice in the BBC's covera...more
And then I read it, and everything fell apart.
I am so disappointed and furious, it actually hurts. I've really loved Hunt's other works, and when he spoke out against the anti-SFF prejudice in the BBC's covera...more
It seems that the odd numbered novels (except for #1 which I liked but #2 and #4 were still better) in the series are misses for me; I cannot pinpoint why this one did not work that well, but some of the elements were the lack of female main leads, the stereotype Cassarabian setting, the domination of pulp elements and overall a complete lack of interest in what happened. No real sense of wonder or of mystery like in Waves or Fire Sea (those two are still huge favorites and among the best sff of...more
I made it, according to my e-reader, 80% of the way through this book when I simply gave up. I just didn't care about the characters to care what happened to them. (Sadly, I think I have a pretty good guess what happened to them anyway).
One of the biggest challenges with trying to care about the characters is that they were all just so terribly dull and stereotypical to the point that they could have been copied from "A Beginners Guide to "Tropes." Even the dialogue was stereotypical for the ch...more
One of the biggest challenges with trying to care about the characters is that they were all just so terribly dull and stereotypical to the point that they could have been copied from "A Beginners Guide to "Tropes." Even the dialogue was stereotypical for the ch...more
A good escapist steam punk read.
I am annoyed that I accidentally read book 6 prior to this, even though the books are almost stand alone. Almost.
Damn it.
Despite that, I felt this was one of the more interesting storyline from the Jackelian series (though I admit that I struggled for a bit in the first few chapters).
I didn't quite like Omar at first, but with all that happened, I found myself caring a lot by the end.
Jack, on the other hand, I always did like.
Jared Black... I still find him annoying >_>
Damn it.
Despite that, I felt this was one of the more interesting storyline from the Jackelian series (though I admit that I struggled for a bit in the first few chapters).
I didn't quite like Omar at first, but with all that happened, I found myself caring a lot by the end.
Jack, on the other hand, I always did like.
Jared Black... I still find him annoying >_>
A cracker of a tale with some great characters and a superb story line.
Another enjoyable outing to this universe. This time we get to see more of Cassarabia. Commodore Black make a return, albeit in disguise.
I review this on my youtube channel along with a couple of other books. :)
http://youtu.be/RZTYc5Ld_Jw
http://youtu.be/RZTYc5Ld_Jw
Hunt manages to deliver a good solid story set in his familiar world of Jackals and Cassarabia. While not as massively inventive as his first 2 or 3 books he still delivers a very enjoyable read with mainly new characters.
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Stephen Hunt is a British writer living in London. His first fantasy novel, For the Crown and the Dragon, was published in 1994, and introduced a young officer, Taliesin, fighting for the Queen of England in a Napoleonic period alternative reality where the wars of Europe we...more
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I love the covers of the other four. Now my set will never match!
09. September, 05:09 Uhr
I love the covers of the other four. Now my set will never match!"
Unless ....more
10. September, 01:48 Uhr