Irenicon
“If there were stars for world-building, Irenicon would be a five plus, no question,” says SFX. “The book is a fountain of gorgeous detail, festooned with enriching codices and enlightening, subtly subsumed exposition,” raved Sci-Fi Now. The river Irenicon is a feat of ancient Concordian...
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“If there were stars for world-building, Irenicon would be a five plus, no question,” says SFX. “The book is a fountain of gorgeous detail, festooned with enriching codices and enlightening, subtly subsumed exposition,” raved Sci-Fi Now. The river Irenicon is a feat of ancient Concordian engineering. Blasted through the middle of Rasenna in 1347, using Wave technology, it divided the only city strong enough to defeat the Concordian Empire. But no one could have predicted the river would become sentient—and hostile. Sofia Scaligeri, the soon-to-be Contessa of Rasenna, has inherited a city tearing itself apart from the inside. And try as she might, she can see no way of stopping the culture of vendetta that has the city in its grasp. Until a Concordian engineer arrives to build a bridge over the Irenicon, clarifying everything: the feuding factions of Rasenna can either continue to fight each other or they can unite against their shared enemy. And they will surely need to stand together—for Concord is about to unleash the Wave again.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781623650391 (1623650399)
Publish date: April 1st 2014
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Series: The Wave Trilogy (#1)
More a 3.5 star read, the end was just heartbreakingly perfect, exactly what was to happen, not an easy end but a right end.
How do you fight against impossible odds? Twenty years before the opening of Aidan Harte's Irenicon, an unnatural wave ripped through the city of Rasenna and ended their resistance against the Concordian Empire. Since then, the city has torn itself apart as factions fight pointless, bloody vendetta....
An interesting, slightly magical alternative late medieval Italian setting with an interesting take on Christianity - the lore of which is a major part of the story. Particularly enjoyed the descriptions of the banner-based martial art.