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The Olympian Affair

von Jim Butcher

Reihen: The Cinder Spires (2)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships.
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For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense and trade.
Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war.
Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon—one capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires.
A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents.
It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albion—assuming that it is not already too late.… (mehr)
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Reading this has been a real struggle. I so love Dresden, and I want to love this, but it drags. The cats are the most interesting characters, but they are only briefly amusing. ( )
  DDtheV | Mar 27, 2024 |
I liked this better than the first book in the series. The action is more sharp-paced and the events take all kinds of interesting turns. The only bad thing is now waiting for the next book in the series. ( )
  TadAD | Feb 2, 2024 |
I thought this one was better than the first, actually. Still almost non-stop action, but it felt better paced. By now, since we are familiar with the characters of Bridget, Gwen, Grimm, Benedict, there was less intro necessary, though this one does introduce another couple, Alexander and Abigail. All out war between Albion and Aurora is coming, the question is, how will it start? More airship action, more hand to hand combat (and duels) and more etheralists, all that you'd expect from a Butcher action fantasy. ( )
  Karlstar | Dec 24, 2023 |
The Olympian Affair - Butcher
Audio performance by Euan Morton
3.5 stars

I liked the first book in this series. I gave The Aeronaut’s Windlass 5 stars with a .5 reservation. There were too many battle scenes and too much description of strategic maneuvers for my tastes. Quirky human characters and talking cats helped me get past my minor complaints. I was looking forward to continuing the series with this book.

I’m happy to have this continuation. I still enjoy the human characters and the talking cats. But, I admit to some disappointment. This book has a great deal of violence; violence in single combat, violence in air battles, and violence of monster attacks. Especially monster attacks. Too much of this book tipped from steampunk-sci-fi-adventure and into H.P. Lovecraft horror. I’m sure that will please many readers, but it’s just not for me.

Naturally, there is a cliffhanger ending. I will read the next book whenever it arrives, but I can easily wait with patience. ( )
  msjudy | Dec 3, 2023 |
A steampunkish extravaganza of world-building. In part two of Butcher's huge, complex story the Spires are heading into war but something is attacking snaller spires and completely depopulating them. Grimm is a privateer on the Predator who is assigned to escort ambassadors to Spire Olympia where a summit is taking place to discuss the matter. Meanwhile Benedict has rescued some kittens who were the only witnesses at one of the spires but they will talk only if they can gain a new territory in Spire Albion. King Maul and Rowl are involved to help the kittens earn their space.
There are wizards, monsters, duels and light effects galore. I look forward to the future installments.
library book read 11/21/2023 ( )
  catseyegreen | Nov 21, 2023 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships.
 
For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense and trade.
Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war.
Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon—one capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires.
A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents.
It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albion—assuming that it is not already too late.

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