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I was lucky enough to get a pre-release copy of Kylie’s new book, Scales of Empire. So different to her other books, but unmistakably Kylie Chan. Despite strange dragons and self-obsessed cats, this is an entirely human story. Imaginative, epic, and heaps of fun, while still exploring thought-provoking and important themes. Keep an eye out for it!
Earth is so polluted that people are leaving to colonize other planets.
Our heroes experience their First Contact when a dragon arrives with dying members of a colony thought to be thriving.
Shiumo likes them and offers to help them establish new colonies.
She can instantaneously leap across space.. She calls it folding..
She changes the weather, cures all illnesses, returns the sea level to normal...
But there are risks..
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Our heroes experience their First Contact when a dragon arrives with dying members of a colony thought to be thriving.
Shiumo likes them and offers to help them establish new colonies.
She can instantaneously leap across space.. She calls it folding..
She changes the weather, cures all illnesses, returns the sea level to normal...
But there are risks..
(view spoiler) ...more
I kind of struggle with this audiobook. I persisted to the end though because each time I thought that it's just boring & nothing happens, I thought something was just about to happen so I kept going. In the end, I did manage to finish but I have to admit that I'm not terribly keen on this book. I'm not a fan of the author's earlier series; I think I only read a few chapters of White Tiger & decided that it's not for me. I thought this book, being scifi & all, should be different and may prove i
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Aug 22, 2018
Betsy
marked it as looks-interesting
Dec 26, 2018
Sarah
marked it as to-read
