The Fall is All There Is - Review
Link to the author's (C. M. Caplan) personal website
Genre: Sci-Fi
Publication Type: Book
Tags:
- Average Age of Main Characters (21)
- Length (5 / 10)
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Blurb: All Petre Mercy wanted was a good old-fashioned dramatic exit from his life as a prince. But it's been five years since he fled home on a cyborg horse. Now the King - his Dad - is dead - and Petre has to decide which heir to pledge his thyroid-powered sword to.
As the youngest in a set of quadruplets, he's all too aware that the line of succession is murky. His siblings are on the precipice of power grabs, and each of them want him to pick their side.
If Petre has any hope of preventing civil war, he'll have to avoid one sibling who wants to take him hostage, win back another's trust after years of rivalry and resentment, and get an audience with a sister he's been avoiding for five years.
Before he knows it, he's plunged himself into a web of intrigue and a world of strange, unnatural inventions just to get to her doorstep.
Family reunions can be a special form of torture.
Review: I didn't love this book at the start. Something about the writing just didn't pull me in. That changed after 30 minutes or so as I started to appreciate the characters, the writing, and the creativeness of the setting. Petre navigating the social quagmire that is his family, and the potential outbreak of a civil war was fun to read. I especially enjoyed how the different settings were explored throughout the book, and how society following two apocalyptic events treated technology. I'm unsure if I will read the rest of the series, but I'd recommend giving the book a shot if the blurb sounds appealing.