Running from her traitorous best friend and her estranged father, graffiti artist Beth Bradley is looking for sanctuary. What she finds is Urchin, the ragged and cocky crown prince of London's mystical underworld. Urchin opens Beth's eyes to the city she's never truly seen-where vast spiders crawl telephone wires seeking voices to steal, railwraiths escape their tethers, and statues conceal an ancient priesthood robed in bronze.
But it all teeters on the brink of destruction. Amid rumors that Urchin's goddess mother will soon return from her 15-year exile, Reach, a malign god of urban decay, wants the young prince dead. Helping Urchin raise an alleyway army to reclaim his skyscraper throne, Beth soon forgets her old life. But when her best friend is captured, Beth must choose between this wondrous existence and the life she left behind.
Pen Khan is burdened by a life of secrets, the biggest of which is written across her face. Following a devastatingly close encounter with a living coil of barbed wire called the Wire Mistress that almost killed her and her best friend Beth, Pen's face is strangely disfigured by dozens of crisscrossing scars, making her an outcast among her peers. The only person who understands her-and the trauma she's experienced-is her mirror sister, Parva, a twin confined to the world of London-Under-Glass.
Following Parva's abduction, Pen strikes a terrible bargain with the unforgiving Chemical Synod in exchange for the means to track her down, and she ventures into the unknown. In London-Under-Glass, appearance is everything, and Pen's peculiar scars make her a valuable ally. But some in the reflected city are doing everything they can to prevent Pen from learning the truth about the disappearance of a girl who shares her face.
From Goodreads:
My first review of The City's Son
My Review:
Oh man, these were such great reads! I loved The City's Son the first time I read it, and I loved it again, and the rest of the series, they were just so freaking great and original! I love this world, and these characters and their adventures! I can't get enough!
I fell in love with this world and these characters in the first book. An I did it again reading it for the second time. It's just such a creative, interesting and unique idea, and I'm so glad that we got a whole series to get to explore it!
Four months ago, Mater Viae, the Goddess of London, returned from London-Under- Glass to reclaim her throne. And ever since then, London has been dying.
Streets are wracked by convulsions as muscles of wire and pipe go into spasm, bunching the city into a crippled new geography; pavements flare to thousand-degree fevers, incinerating anyone and anything touching them. Towers crash to the ground, their foundations decayed.
As the streets sicken, so does Beth, drawn ever deeper into the heart of the city, while Pen fights desperately for a way to save her. But when they discover that Mater Viae's plans for dominion stretch far beyond London's borders, they must make a choice: Beth has it within her to unleash the city's oldest and greatest powers – powers that could challenge the vengeful goddess, or destroy the city itself.
My Review:
Oh man, these were such great reads! I loved The City's Son the first time I read it, and I loved it again, and the rest of the series, they were just so freaking great and original! I love this world, and these characters and their adventures! I can't get enough!
I fell in love with this world and these characters in the first book. An I did it again reading it for the second time. It's just such a creative, interesting and unique idea, and I'm so glad that we got a whole series to get to explore it!
Pen's story was fantastic to read, I loved her quest for her mirror sister! I loved the areas of London that this book explored. It was interesting being in her perspective with her scars, and how differently she's treated because of them.
And things end with a bang! I just wanted to know what was going to happen next, how it was all going to resolve! I couldn't put it down, it was such a compelling story! And oh, I loved how everything wrapped up, it was so fantastic to read!
Loved reading these books, and I can't wait to read more by Tom Pollock!
Author: Tom Pollock
Series: The Skyscraper Throne #1, 2, 3
First Read: September 30th, 2012
Loved reading these books, and I can't wait to read more by Tom Pollock!
Author: Tom Pollock
Series: The Skyscraper Throne #1, 2, 3
First Read: September 30th, 2012
Read: January 29th, 30th, 30th, 2023
Source: Own, Bought
Reason Why: Rereading! And they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books, The Glass Republic is a Sophomore Challenge Book and a WTC Book, and Our Lady of the Streets is a End of Series 2023 Book!
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Published: August 2nd 2012, August 1st 2013, August 7th 2014
Source: Own, Bought
Reason Why: Rereading! And they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books, The Glass Republic is a Sophomore Challenge Book and a WTC Book, and Our Lady of the Streets is a End of Series 2023 Book!
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Published: August 2nd 2012, August 1st 2013, August 7th 2014
The City's Son:
 |
| 5/5 Hearts |
 |
| 5/5 Books |
 |
| 5/5 Stars |
The Glass Republic:
|
| 5/5 Hearts |
|
| 5/5 Books |
|
| 5/5 Stars |
Our Lady of the Streets:
|
| 5/5 Hearts |
|
| 5/5 Books |
|
| 5/5 Stars |
No comments:
Post a Comment
I love comments, so comment away! I'll comment back if you leave a post-specific link for me to visit! If you leave that link, I'll always comment back, even if it's like, a month late!
This is an award free blog! Thanks for thinking of me but I just don't have the time to pass it along!