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    Ship of Smoke and Steel
    Ship of Smoke and Steel
    Ship of Smoke and Steel
    Audiobook13 hours

    Ship of Smoke and Steel

    Written by Django Wexler

    Narrated by Catherine Ho

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    Ship of Smoke and Steel is the launch of Django Wexler's cinematic, action-packed epic fantasy Wells of Sorcery trilogy. In the lower wards of Kahnzoka, the great port city of the Blessed Empire, eighteen-year-old ward boss Isoka enforces the will of her criminal masters with the power of Melos, the Well of Combat. The money she collects goes to keep her little sister living in comfort, far from the bloody streets they grew up on. When Isoka's magic is discovered by the government, she's arrested and brought to the Emperor's spymaster, who sends her on an impossible mission: steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship-a ship from which no one has ever returned. If she fails, her sister's life is forfeit. On board Soliton, nothing is as simple as it seems. Isoka tries to get close to the ship's mysterious captain, but to do it she must become part of the brutal crew and join their endless battles against twisted creatures. She doesn't expect to have to contend with feelings for a charismatic fighter who shares her combat magic, or for a fearless princess who wields an even darker power. "Truly epic, fierce, and exhilarating, Ship of Smoke and Steel will capture you and lock you away. With magical combat sequences fit for the big screen, the action is almost as breathtaking as the intrigue." -Morgan Rhodes, New York Times bestselling author of the Falling Kingdoms series
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 22, 2019
    ISBN9781980018094
    Ship of Smoke and Steel
    Author

    Django Wexler

    Django Wexler is a self-proclaimed computer/fantasy/sci-fi geek. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with degrees in creative writing and computer science, worked in artificial intelligence research and as a programmer/writer for Microsoft, and is now a full-time fantasy writer. Django is the author of The Shadow Campaigns, an epic fantasy series for adults published by Roc (an imprint of Penguin), and The Forbidden Library, a classic fantasy series for young readers published by Kathy Dawson Books (an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group).

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    • 4/5
      High stakes fantasy, and pirates that have magical powers!! A slow-burner but amazing!! Can't wait for book 2!!
    • 4/5
      adult/teen action/adventure-fantasy series fiction (teen with magical powers sets out to steal a slaver "ghost ship" in order to save her sister in a fantasy Asia-esque world; she likes men but gradually falls in love with a brown-skinned princess)

      strong female characters and action-filled plot, with interesting twists and world-building. Pay no attention to the title (thanks for nothing, Marketing!) as there is not that much smoke, and no one cares much for the steel. "Ghost Ship" would've been more apt.
    • 5/5
      An awful lot of worldbuilding going on here, in an entertaining way. There are different “Wells” of mystical power; our heroine possesses one that lets her make lightning swords out of her arms. She’s eking a living out as a mob enforcer, keeping her sister in a respectable house, when she’s grabbed by the Empire and sent as a sacrifice to a ghost ship, with the mission of taking command of the powerful ghost ship or her sister will suffer the ordinary fate of pretty young girls without protectors. The ship itself seems to be something like a haunted mystical computer. She falls in with another young woman whose well is healing, which is reviled because when it goes wrong it creates plagues and worse. Romance, adventure, and further mystery follow. I liked it!