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Author name: John C. Wright

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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780765349958
ISBN number: 0765349957
Label: Tor Science Fiction
Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: October 31, 2006
Publishing house: Tor Science Fiction
Sale Popularity Level: 107571
Studio: Tor Science Fiction



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What if your teachers taught you everything–except who you really are?
 
For Amelia and her friends, the strict English boarding school she lives in is all she has ever known.  The sprawling estate, bordered by unknown territory on all four sides, is both orphanage, academy, and prison.  The school has a large staff, but only five students, none of whom know what their real names are, or even how old they are.
 
Precocious and rebellious, all five teenagers are more than just prodigies.  Amelia can see in four dimensions.  Victor can control the molecular arrangement of matter.  Vanity can find secret passageways where none existed before.  Colin is a psychic.  Quentin is a warlock.
 
And, as time goes by, they’re starting to suspect that none of them are entirely human . . .
 
John C. Wright previous fantasy novels, the Epic Chronicles of Everness, were lavishly praised by both readers and reviewers.  Now he embarks on an ambitious new saga that explores the overlapping boundaries of science, mythology, and the imagination.




Customer Reviews
User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Worthwile!
This was definately a novel worth reading. I look forward to gettibg my hands on the subsequent installment. Mr. Wright has a way with words that i found delighful, though I did have to stop and look a few of them up.


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - Interesting premise but...
I love the premise but I'm not so sure about the execution. The writer never really engaged me, other than some occasional flashes. I liked the book enough to finish it, but nowhere near enough to go out and buy the subsequent in the series. The main characters have a very focused outlook (one's the science type, one's metaphysical, etc)and the author does an excellent job of adapting his writing for each. I felt out of my depth with some of the dialogue from the science type, and there was so much of it that I was often tempted to skip it completely, but who knows what I would have missed if I had. In the end, it's a toss up. I think it's worth it to give the author a shot, but for me it wasn't worth it to keep on with the series.


Rated by buyers 2 out of 5 stars - Well Written but Disappointing
On the one hand, I found the author's writing style to be very mature and easy to read. The story was narrated by the main character, a teenage girl, and she lent a very charming voice to the novel.

On the other hand, every character was one-dimensional, there was no character development or maturity, the plot didn't develop much (in 300-some pages!), and the almost constant dominant/submissive sexual play with our youthful heroine was both annoying and off-putting.

The cast of characters was another disappointment. It began as a small, intimate group of friends, which I rather liked, but then quite suddenly grew into a huge gaggle of oddballs with multiple names, intertwining relationships, and even flatter personalities than our main characters.

The magic system was an interesting concept -- It used hyperspace physics as a form of magic -- but I don't feel that it worked very well in practice. The lengthy explanations in the middle of the action sequences were a little annoying. It was also silly because the physics babble was really just a thin veneer for whatever struck the author's fancy.

The ending was abrupt and unresolved, but I wouldn't exactly call it a cliffhanger. Generally a cliffhanger leaves you in suspense, excited to read on. This book just left me shrugging and thinking, "Well... that went absolutely nowhere."

So there you have it. This review is one part praise and four parts criticism, and that seems like just the right ratio for this book. Not without its charm, but I certainly won't be reading the rest of the series.

Your mileage may vary.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Good Story, wish the rest were available for Kindle.
I enjoyed the descriptions of extra dimensions abilities of the characters.

Got this book for $0.00, I guess as a promotion from the publisher. I would guess the idea would be to promote the whole series. But, only the very first book in the series is available for the Kindle, so I don't quite see the point.

It's especially frustrating since the story kind of leaves you hanging.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Great story -- where's the subsequent kindle book?
I am an avid fantasy/sci-fi reader, and stumbled across this one because I was desperate for something new to read. It turned out to be worth the time.
There are plenty of reviews of this story under the actual bindings (!Orphans of Chaos) , so I won't repeat them here.
The problem is that it was just released on Kindle (June 2008), but there doesn't appear to be the subsequent one yet

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