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    A Star Shall Fall

    By Marie Brennan

    3.5/5

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    It is 1759, and scientists are mapping the laws of the natural world, disproving ancient superstition. The fae of the Onyx Court fear that magic is losing its place in the world—and science threatens to expose the court to hostile eyes. Yet they and the mortals above may have to harness both magic and science to defeat a common foe. A comet is coming, one to which a great foe is harnessed. They cannot defeat it by magic alone, and time is running out...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTitan Books
    Release dateSep 13, 2016
    ISBN9781785650789
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    A Star Shall Fall
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    Marie Brennan

    MARIE BRENNAN is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for inspiration. She recently misapplied her professors' hard work to The Night Parade of 100 Demons and the short novel Driftwood. She is the author of the Hugo Award-nominated Victorian adventure series The Memoirs of Lady Trent along with several other series, over seventy short stories, and the New Worlds series of worldbuilding guides; as half of M.A. Carrick, she has written the epic Rook and Rose trilogy, beginning with The Mask of Mirrors. 

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    • 4/5
      Several years ago, Halley's Comet had passed by earth and the Faeries in London had exiled the dragon that caused the Great Fire to the cold stone never to trouble them again - or so they thought. Now, with the modern science of the 1750s, they know that the comet is returning, and with it, the dragon. They're in a race against time to find a way to defeat it before the comet reaches perihelion, or both their world and London itself may be destroyed.What I thought was the first in a series is actually the third, so it's possible that I would have had a different reaction had I read the books in order. I felt that the characters of Lune, the Faerie queen under London; Galen, her human Prince of the Stone; and Irrith, a naive knight who simply hates politics, were difficult to get to know and figure out their motivations. That being said, it was quite easy for me to follow and from what I understand the other books in the series are set in different time periods. The writing fits the time period and the pacing is deliberate and covers over a year of time, which sometimes counterbalanced the urgency of the characters' attempts to defeat the dragon before its return. The historical details, especially about science and alchemy of that time period, were incorporated believably into the world building of Faerie and London.
    • 4/5
      I fell into this series in the middle, so there's an extra star for some benefit of the doubt. The Onyx Court premise is a sort of Fae-in-London alternate history, and Brennan does a good job of tying her story to the place and time and of tying worlds together. The plot has good complexity and pace for the most part, and yet I struggled a bit to want to get to the end. Maybe it's down to characterization--there are interesting, well-motivated characters who nevertheless are all a little bland. If I'd read the other two books, maybe that would have helped me care more, hence the extra star.
    • 4/5
      Halley's comet is returning and with it the Dragon, exiled there by the fae of the Onyx Court beneath London. For the last fifty years, they have been searching desperately for a way to defeat the Dragon, stop it from returning and consuming London--or perhaps the whole world--in fire. Their young, untried mortal Prince of the Stone, in hopeless love with Queen Lune, may have found the path to an answer, in mortal science or in alchemy. But at what price?
    • 4/5
      This is probably my favorite book in the Onyx Court series. It’s a much tighter story, and I got the sense of how closely the mortal and Faerie worlds influence one another, even if the monarchs aren’t tied. The ending made me want to read more about the Court and their reactions to the oncoming Industrial Revolution, what happened with Lune and the future of the Onyx Hall and the London fae. I also liked Abd al-Rashir, and the glimpse of non-European fae and their cultural differences. In all, a fun read and I would love to see more from Marie Brennan’s world.
    • 4/5
      ***May Contain Spoilers For "In Ashes Lie"***During the London fire of 1666 a powerful Dragon was born. It was first trapped in an iron box, but the box could not contain it so the fae banished it to a passing comet in 1682. However, Sir Edmond Halley of the newly formed Royal Society of London calculated that the comet would return. The Dragon is a hungry creature who wants to consume the Onyx Hall. Lune asks her Prince of the Stone, Galen St. Clair, to join the Royal Society to find a way to destroy it. Can mortal science help them save there court?This was an enjoyable novel. It reads like a “hero’s journey.” The character of Galen St. Clair is young and untested. The only reason he became Lune’s prince was because he was in love with her. He knows that fae can only give their hearts to one person and that Lune’s love is the first Prince of the Stone, Sir Michael Deven, who died years ago. She made Galen Prince because her last consort died suddenly and he was the only London born mortal at hand. He grows and changes throughout the book and truly becomes a hero. The same can be said for the little sprite Irrith. She left the court for 50 years after being manipulated by a fae who wanted to usurp Lune’s throne. Irrith loses her naiveté and learns to care for others.My only problem with this book is that Lune is not the central figure. She is pushed to the background and used as a symbol for the Onyx Court. I thought for a while that she would be killed and a new fae would become ruler. The Court is fading as London grows and the queen is fading too. Her character still acts like Elizabeth I, which is becoming out dated and shows how the court is becoming a part of the past. Still, her struggles were the focal point of the first two novels and I like the character better than the boyish sprite Irrith who takes center stage with Galen.