Reading through my past several posts I've discovered that I've been starting with the same line - "I really love/like these..." Time to get the brain out of storage and start anew.
I was leary of this book because of all the advance praise from well known science fiction authors. Sometimes these books just don't live up to the hype. This one did. And - it's the first of five! Let's hope they're all this good.
Set in a land with several nations held in peace by the Androfrancine Brotherhood, the world is badly tilted out of whack by the destruction of the Androfrancine city of Windwir by an ancient weapon of terrible destruction. Gone are the people, the city and the vast library the Order has accumulated. The story is told through several people - a device I was worried would be tiresome but flowed quite nicely.
Rudolfo is Lord of the Ninefold Forest Houses and leader of the Gypsy Scouts and the Wandering Army. Petronus has hidden himself away as a simple fisherman and will return as Pope to bury his dead. Nebios is a young man about to take his first archeologicl journey with his father only to watch as everyone he knows dies in an instant. Sethber, the Overseer of the Entrolusian City States, is the fat cat gloating over the destruction and the start of his plan to rule all of the lands. Lady Jin Li Tam has been her father's pawn in the game of statecrat he plays but she will soon find her own way and worth.
The twisting plans within plans within plans got very confusing and in the end I just went with the flow and didn't try to anticipate an outcome. I was very taken with the metal man, Isaac, who was programed to destroy Windwir and then found his way with the beginning of a new library.
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