A Conspiracy of Alchemists (The Chronicles of Light and Shadow #1)By Liesel Schwarz
Rating: 4.9
'When I was young and living among my people, the Dryad, I once had a different name. But that was many years ago, at a time when anise and wormwood were nothing more than plants that made up my world. A time before sacred dreams could be bought for a few sugar cubes.
I knew from the moment I saw her she would offer salvation. But salvation often comes at a price.'
Meet Eleanor “Elle” Chance - airship pilot and and daughter of the famous spark-reactor scientist.
Flying airships is a risky business. But Elle is to be dragged into an adventure that is riskier than any mid-air manoeuvre she has ever undertaken.
Creatures of Light and Shadow walk the streets. Wars rage behind cultured smiles and top hats.
The Alchemists and Warlocks stare one another off, eyes conveying silent threats that their powers can easily follow up. Nightwalkers and fae occupy opium dens, train carriages and the bottom of absinthe bottles.
Elle's eyes are opened to worlds she never dared believe existed; and to a fate she never knew she had.
A box. A simple box twists Elle's fate forever, throwing her into the path of the handsome enigma Mr Marsh. Unlikely allies, they must retrieve the box in order to prevent the Alchemists from unleashing a magical apocalypse upon the world.
Tempers are tested, wits employed and hearts stirred. But Elle must remain clear-headed - this is not her fight. She wants nothing to do with the supernatural world, with the occult doings of Warlocks and Alchemists. But she may have to do just that, in order to save those she loves from a terrible fate.
Dare to believe. Dare to fight. Dare to take flight on an adventure unlike any other.
Steampunk soars to new heights in a novel that is bound to have you laughing over its refreshing wit and its cast of characters - brave, loveable, twisted and broken...all of them have a part to play in Liesel Schwarz's exciting tale of a heroine who isn't afraid to take what Fate dishes out to her.
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