Nimbus A Steampunk Novel Part 1 eBook Austin King BJ Keeton
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Try the first novella in the bestselling serial novel for free! NIMBUS is steampunk for people who don't know they like steampunk, as well as being steampunk for people who already love steampunk!
NIMBUS is steampunk fantasy like you've never read before, and this is the first steampunk novella in a four-part serial. The collected edition of all four novellas is available now as a complete standalone novel. ASIN B00CA67A64
Seedy corporations and airship factions, demons and rogues, zealots and thieves…
Nimbus is an epic fantasy tale of power, greed, and corruption.
Jude Finley is a new recruit aboard the Gangly Dirigible, an airship that extracts water from rain clouds. While working aboard the ship, Jude and his friends uncover a secret which may or may not help them against a growing uprising that could spell doom for everyone on the planet.
Meanwhile, Demetrius Rucca, the wheelchair-bound son of a prominent religious leader, begins recruiting followers for his own subversive cause. As allegiances are sworn to him and his followers grow, he begins to discover the new powers that lie within him. This power could be the salvation Demetrius is looking for–or it could be the destruction of the known world.
Whether you're looking for sky pirates or steampunk magic, Nimbus is the young adult steampunk adventure that has it all. And be sure not to miss the new follow-up series of steampunk novellas--Stratus takes place three years after the events of Nimbus. You'll see old friends and new faces, explore deep under the deathly fog and into the Burrows, and just maybe hear a few new steampunk tales you'll want to share with your friends.
Nimbus A Steampunk Novel Part 1 eBook Austin King BJ Keeton
This book draws you in to start with and you can see the conflict that may arise from the two main characters. Yet, in the middle the book just falls flat. I had a hard time slogging through to the end. There is a key element missing because I felt no connection with any of the characters. I didn't care by the end of the book where they went, or how they resolved the conflicts they faced. Maybe the following books in the series will give them a richer layer, but I am not sure if I care to read further and find out.Product details
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Nimbus A Steampunk Novel Part 1 eBook Austin King BJ Keeton Reviews
This is a young adult book, I am not a young adult. Bearing that in mind, I found this book a bit predictable and the characters hard to connect to, or really care about at all. I made it to the end because it is not awful, but I don't have any interest what happens next.
Many different factions in this book, with multiple plots. You have the burrowers, who live under the land. You have the miners, water, who live above the clouds. And you have the ruling classes, divided into tiers in their cities.
And in between all of that, is a deadly cloud cover that kills and deforms people. Think clouds of acid rain.
Internal strife with the high Prelate and his son is a plot in this story. As well as the story of the hosers and the ships they are on.
This first book sets up all of the conflict that makes up this series. Nice steampunk novel.
First, I was under the impression when getting this that it was part one of a Series. It's not. This is part one of a Serial novel. Because of this not being clear in the description, I was frustrated when 25% into the "book" there wasn't even an inciting incident. I almost bailed then, but realized that it was a serial, not a series and decided to keep going, despite not yet caring about the characters.
Then the distracting modern terminology kept pulling me out of the story. I went into the story expecting victorian era story, come to find out almost at the end of the book that this takes place several centuries in the future. Perhaps knowing that on page one would have prevented me from being annoyed at seeing dialogue and phrasing throughout the whole story that was incongruous with the expected setting. Even had the characters been compelling, the word choice was maddening enough that again, I almost bailed, but I'd already gone so far I figured I might as well finish.
Neither the plot, nor characters hooked me in, didn't make me want to continue with the story.
This was my first steampunk reading. I found most of the characters developed, and assume they will be further developed as the series progresses. The "world" was dark and the mood was well developed, but I was not able to visualize the settings at all - just the mood. The heaviness needs something to lighten it up now and then, like a fresh salad with a steak. I am curious as to the future action, but not enough to actually pursue another installment. I plan to read more steampunk to become more familiar with the genre, but I'm guessing the audience is YA. Yet to determine if this is typical of the genre.
As far as steampunk goes it gets it more or less correct. The world building is pretty good but there isn't much of a world to build. The writing itself is good for the most part but the action is slip shod. There are scenes where the Gangly Dirigible flies into a storm to harvest the water in the clouds that is written well. Later there is a fight scene between one of the main characters (Demetrius Rucca) and a handful of sailors that is so passive and boring I put it down and went to do something else.
My biggest problem however is the fact that I don't care at all for any of the characters. I wanted to like Jude, but I wasn't given a reason to. I cannot stand Rucca or his father. Then there is the cacophony of characters on board the Gangly Dirigible introduced so fast that it gets confusing.
I had to laugh at myself, because as I sat down to write this review, the title of the series suddenly made sense to me Nimbus, a type of cloud, and clouds play such a vital role in this story. The primary economic event in the story is the use of airships to harvest water vapor from clouds, yet far down in the lower atmosphere is a cloud layer that covers the planet and is capable of eating flesh. This flesh-eating cloud separates the poor who live underground from the wealthy who live in floating cities above the destructive cloud. These two cloud types affect the lives of our characters in so many ways.
Let me begin by thanking the authors for taking the time to edit and clean up their manuscript. I can recall very few errors of spelling, grammar or punctuation, and so the overall aftertaste of the story in my mind is a pleasant one. Thank you!
There are two main characters Demetrius Rucca, born into power and privilege in one of the floating cities, and Jude Finley, a young man who has made his way from the underground Burrows to a job as a crewman on an airship. We get hints early on that Demetrius may be on his way to being the antagonist, yet I found his character to be slightly more interesting than our presumed hero, Jude.
Demetrius is rich and spoiled and he knows it. What's more, he wants to keep reminding everyone around him about his status, so he takes pleasure from insulting people, being rude and obnoxious, and putting those lower than him in their place. Harshly, if need be. His willingness to demean and belittle others for the slightest of offenses gives us a glimpse into the (poor) quality of his character. The complexity of his character comes from the fact that he is genuinely nice to the one or two people he would consider friends, such as one of the local shopkeepers. Demetrius is much more than a one-dimensional antagonist.
Jude, on the other hand, comes across a little flat. He sends his wages, which consist of fresh bottled water straight from the cloud harvest, home to his family, so we see that he is a generous and considerate young man, but I felt like there was no significant conflict going on around him to fully engage his personality. He has occasional squabbles with certain members of the crew, but only one of these seems to have the potential to become a truly dangerous situation. Of course, this altercation is over a girl, also a crewmember on the airship. Nothing comes of it in the first novel, so perhaps later in the series it comes back into play. To sum it up, Jude is simply a nice guy trying to do his best in a really bad situation.
My only complaint about the substance of the writing would be that the authors spent a lot of effort near the beginning of the novel introducing us to a lot of Jude's airship crewmates, most of whom are only minor characters and only intermittently appear in the story. We first meet Jude as he is being roused out of his bunk for unexpected duty. Immediately following this, we are subjected to a long and unnecessary sequence of Jude talking to his airship mates on the way to his duty station. In my opinion, it would have been better for us as readers to first.see Jude in the midst of a storm doing his very dangerous job of harvesting the precious water from the cloud rather than have him used to introduce a whole lot of characters we don't really need to know yet.
I really enjoyed the setting of the novel. Never do the authors come out and state that this is taking place on Earth. There are no references to cities or landmarks we are familiar with, so it almost has a fantasy-novel feel to it. The flesh-eating cloud is clearly the result of some pre-novel apocalypse or environmental catastrophe. The ambiguity of the setting itself lent a tense undercurrent to the story.
The very first scene is one of a dying Demetrius being brought back to life by a dark and possibly malevolent entity summoned by Demetrius' desperate father. Toward the end of the story, Jude himself apparently becomes host to a similar being. Will this become a tale of two young men vying to become the chief villain? Demetrius by the end of the novel has begun to embrace the dark being residing within himself. Will Jude also succumb to this power?
This book draws you in to start with and you can see the conflict that may arise from the two main characters. Yet, in the middle the book just falls flat. I had a hard time slogging through to the end. There is a key element missing because I felt no connection with any of the characters. I didn't care by the end of the book where they went, or how they resolved the conflicts they faced. Maybe the following books in the series will give them a richer layer, but I am not sure if I care to read further and find out.
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