Child of Fire, Harry Connolly
Child of Fire, Harry Connolly
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Child of Fire
A Twenty Palaces Novel

Author: Harry Connolly

Narrator: Daniel Thomas May

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/21/2020

Synopsis

Ray Lilly is living on borrowed time. He's the driver for Annalise Powliss, a high-ranking member of the Twenty Palace Society, a group of sorcerers devoted to hunting down and executing rogue magicians. But because Ray betrayed her once, Annalise is looking for an excuse to kill him—or let someone else do the job.

Unfortunately for both of them, Annalise's next mission goes wrong, leaving her critically injured. With the little magic he controls, Ray must complete her assignment alone. Not only does he have to stop a sorcerer who's sacrificing dozens of innocent lives in exchange for supernatural power, he must find—and destroy—the source of that inhuman magic.

About Harry Connolly

Child of Fire, Harry Connolly's debut novel and the first in the Twenty Palaces series, was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best 100 Novels of 2009. The sequel, Game of Cages, was released in 2010 and the third book, Circle of Enemies, came out in 2011, as did a prequel (cleverly) titled Twenty Palaces. King Khan, a pulp adventure novel based on the role-playing game Spirit of the Century, was released in 2013 by game company Evil Hat.

Later in 2013, Harry ran a Kickstarter for his apocalyptic epic fantasy trilogy, The Great Way, which was released in 2015. As stretch goals for that project, he published his pacifist urban fantasy A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark, and the short fiction collection Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy, which includes the Twenty Palaces short story "The Homemade Mask."

Harry lives in Seattle with his beloved wife, his beloved son, and his beloved library system.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Felicia

NO ROMANCE YEAH!!! I took a left turn and went straight urban fantasy for this book and YES I really really really enjoyed it! Here's the tale of an ex-con sucked into guarding a sorceror who's part of a secret society to oppress bad magicians from popping up in the world abusing magic (the bad guys......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin)

Well....what can I say? A good read, not the best I've read and with some things that bugged me a bit, but all in all just this side of excellent. Which is a bit depressing as the series has already been cancelled. I'm planning on ordering the next 2 (used) tomorrow. The thing is that I was unaware o......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

I am a Romance Novel reader, I love the mushy, gushy, touchy, lovey stuff, which none of this is included in the book. This book had me running around like a chicken with my head cut off for the fist hundred pages, I just couldn't figure it out, which of course made me want to read more and one by o......more

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