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A review by lillian_francis
Prosperity by Alexis Hall
5.0
Damn it, this book nearly broke me.
I have to confess I struggled with the first chapter of this book. It was late and I was tired and the combination of both probably wasn't conducive to the style of storytelling involved in this tale.
But today, I got back into it and devoured the last 75% in one sitting.
This is not a romance, a least not in the traditional sense. There no HEA or even HFN for our narrator, young Piccadilly, but we do see the relationship of two of the secondary characters through his eyes, and oh, how this relationship tugged by poor heart in opposite directions. I often find it hard to connect with relationships told by third parties, but with this one I felt every every pleading word and heartless wounding, and I was rooting for Ruban and Milord with a keenness that left me raw and bloody --and bitterly sad during one of the two sex scenes in the story.
As for the rest of the tale it was filled with airships and revenge, and whores and opiates, and kraken and mechanical dead men. Not necessarily in that order. And the strangest mismatch of characters ever brought together on a aethership.
And as for Piccadilly, he is left with the promise of something more.
I have to confess I struggled with the first chapter of this book. It was late and I was tired and the combination of both probably wasn't conducive to the style of storytelling involved in this tale.
But today, I got back into it and devoured the last 75% in one sitting.
This is not a romance, a least not in the traditional sense. There no HEA or even HFN for our narrator, young Piccadilly, but we do see the relationship of two of the secondary characters through his eyes, and oh, how this relationship tugged by poor heart in opposite directions. I often find it hard to connect with relationships told by third parties, but with this one I felt every every pleading word and heartless wounding, and I was rooting for Ruban and Milord with a keenness that left me raw and bloody --and bitterly sad during one of the two sex scenes in the story.
As for the rest of the tale it was filled with airships and revenge, and whores and opiates, and kraken and mechanical dead men. Not necessarily in that order. And the strangest mismatch of characters ever brought together on a aethership.
And as for Piccadilly, he is left with the promise of something more.