His current assignment is to shut down a big player in the Amberlough black market. It’s important that we get a feel for the city right away–the busy port, the busier district of thespians and pleasure houses, the stately gardens and monuments–because the fall of Amberlough is the crux on which our characters’ lives turn.Ĭyril DePaul is one such protagonist, a spy still recuperating after a mission that left him with physical and psychological scarring. Instead, the city itself is the first character we meet, as its high-living, free-wheeling, pocket-padding denizens drag themselves onto the trolley system for another day of work. Amberlough as a city does not (thankfully) map onto New York or London or Paris. While the setting–the troubled confederacy of Gedda–may be fantastical, the reader will immediately recognize the characters’ lifestyles and the looming threat of fascism as highly reminiscent of the 1930s. AMBERLOUGH ( Amazon) is a remarkably self-assured debut, as Donnelly carves an unique space for herself in the fantasy world. Sleek! Provocative! Captivating! This is due in large part to Lara Elena Donnelly’s prose, which gives the alternate world setting an immediate and richly textured sense of place.
AMBERLOUGH is the kind of novel that makes you want to throw adjectives at it.
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