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The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher ($8.81)
Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity. Within their halls, the ruling aristocratic houses develop scientific marvels, foster trade alliances, and maintain fleets of airships to keep the peace.
Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship Predator. Loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is damaged in combat, Grimm joins a team of Albion agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring his ship.
And as Grimm undertakes this task, he learns that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Humanity’s ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its wake…
I have very little desire to read this book but my daughter is all about the steampunk scene. She is looking forward to entering this new adventure and seeing what Jim Butcher is all about. I love that the entire family has been able to add some depth to our reading pools.
Armada by Ernest Cline ($11.30)
Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure.
But hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe.
And then he sees the flying saucer.
Even stranger, the alien ship he’s staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada—in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders.
No, Zack hasn’t lost his mind. As impossible as it seems, what he’s seeing is all too real. And his skills—as well as those of millions of gamers across the world—are going to be needed to save the earth from what’s about to befall it.
It’s Zack’s chance, at last, to play the hero. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can’t help thinking back to all those science-fiction stories he grew up with, and wondering: Doesn’t something about this scenario seem a little…familiar?
At once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming of age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you’ve ever read before—one whose every page is infused with the pop-culture savvy that has helped make Ready Player One a phenomenon.
I’m not a video game player but I am actually looking forward to this book. I love the idea of finding yourself in a world that is all too familiar only to find out that it’s up to you to save the world. It’s going to be amazing to watch our main character come of age while making himself into a man. I am a sucker for a great human growth story.
With BookCase.Club, it’s a miracle that my family has clean clothes or dinner every night. I am loving that each month brings novels that I can enjoy as well as the rest of the family. It’s nice when we all can read in the same room and have something other than school or work to talk about. The Sci-Fi genre is something new to my world since I like thrillers but I am starting to really like getting into a new genre. There is something amazing about challenging my reading growth. So I will be reading both books before June’s box arrives.
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