Nethereal Soul Cycle Book 1 eBook Brian Niemeier Marcelo Orsi Blanco L Jagi Lamplighter
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The Sublime Brotherhood of Steersmen holds the Middle Stratum in its iron grip. Jaren Peregrine, last of the Gen, raids across fringe space with Nakvin—her captain’s best pilot and only friend, apprentice steersman Deim, and mercenary Teg Cross.
Hunted by the ruthless Master Malachi, Jaren and his crew join a conspiracy to break the Guild’s monopoly with an experimental ship. But when its maiden voyage goes awry, the Exodus flies farther off course than its crew could have imagined.
Nethereal Soul Cycle Book 1 eBook Brian Niemeier Marcelo Orsi Blanco L Jagi Lamplighter
There are starships, but these are not your father's starships. There are space pirates, but not the space pirates you were looking for. There is Hell, but it's not...quite...Dante's Hell. Magical firearms, trapped souls, epic space battles, startling images, touches of Persian dualism, wise-ass demigods, necromancers, a zombie chicken, and a marvelous swipe at the bloodthirsty 14th Century Bishop Henry Despenser of Norwich.And this is the author's first novel. I'm hardly an expert, but I was extremely impressed.
What's key here is the richness of the author's creation. This isn't just an imagined future. Earth is nowhere to be seen, past or present. Brian has created an entire cosmos with its own rules, exotic physics, and even more exotic metaphysics. Half-sentient FTL starships are guided by telepathic pilots who are more partner than master--and can be eaten by the mysterious Wheel if they break the complex rules of steersmanship. The gulf between life and death that we experience here is paper-thin in this ancient cosmos long abandoned by its own gods. Half of your crew might actually be dead men--and you have to look close to tell which is which.
The plot is difficult to discuss without giving too much away. There are constant twists and turns, which sometimes expand to a Byzantine complexity that may be the book's primary (though not critical) flaw. One of the few remaining members of an immortal race searches this strange cosmos for clues about his father's fate and the titanic starship his father designed, on a mysterious mission that eventually takes Jaren Peregrine and his peculiar crew to the center of Hell itself. Strap in and enjoy the ride. I've never seen anything quite like it in my 50-odd years of reading SFF.
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Nethereal Soul Cycle Book 1 eBook Brian Niemeier Marcelo Orsi Blanco L Jagi Lamplighter Reviews
Fantastic book. I read in the brief interlude between classes and just before bed, but I couldn't put Nethereal down because I wanted to see what happened next. The action is well-paced, the suspense is metered out in appropriate doses at the appropriate times, and the characterization is present without being expositional.
This probably seems like a simple thing, but I have to comment on it. I've read so much recently where authors have taken something important to their characters away to create dramatic tension only to turn around and restore it in some form or another later on to usher in warm fuzzies. They think readers want to have their cake and eat it, too, but those empty calories are some of the least satisfying things to consume in all of fiction. Brian Niemeier throws out widespread bait-and-switch tactics and gives the loss in Nethereal permanency. The answers to the introspective "How would I feel if...?" questions I ask myself as I read become so much more interesting when I don't need to default to "totally fine with it by the end of the book." That was never my reply while reading Nethereal, for the record. God forbid.
Without giving too much away, bad stuff goes down to the characters in Nethereal almost constantly. Each... incident, for lack of a better term, is sufficiently varied from the last so that repetition doesn't desensitize readers to what will come next. Predictability doesn't exist in the author's vision of hell; another pitfall that some books march directly into, Brian Niemeier sidesteps with poise and flair. I'm glad I spend my days on a little green rock called Earth, where the living nightmares I will likely never face to begin with are relatively mundane by comparison.
The author has a background in theology and his experience is reflected in his writing. Behind the impressive facade of the book's surface action, I thought I felt echoes of ideas C. S. Lewis penned in works like The Great Divorce. These bite-sized moral lessons aren't the cliché or unsubtle messages sprinkled throughout other popular media- Disney films, with their black-and-white happily ever afters, spring to mind. Rather, they're the sort of thing that readers need to search for and then step back and digest to fully appreciate. I found something a girl named Ydahl observed about the nature of hell, with regards to compassion, to be especially insightful.
On one hand, I'm not a very widely-read fan of science fiction, so I have little from the genre to compare Nethereal to. On the other hand, I now have a rubric to measure the rest of science fiction against. I am buying the sequels as soon as my budget permits.
I recently finished Nethereal, the debut novel from Brian Niemeier.
I'm going to come right out and admit it I bought this book because of its cover. First, that cover is all kinds of awesome. Second, it's a cover that screams out, "I am a science fiction novel and I'm not afraid to announce that to the world."
I'm not a fan of the recent trend in genre fiction towards bland, generic covers that try to hide the fact that the books are genre. I bought Game of Thrones back nearly twenty years ago when it was still printed with the original paperback cover of Jon Snow and his direwolf Ghost. I'm not afraid to admit that I bought that book for the cover, too.
In both cases, it was a good choice. Nethereal is a strong debut novel. The characters are interesting. The setting is interesting. The plot bogs down just a bit in the middle, but otherwise moves at a brisk pace. Most importantly, you'll want to know what happens next to these characters. The most frustrating thing for me in reading this book was that I was so busy that I had to read it in short segments. I kept getting angry that I had to put it down to do other things.
One other aspect of the book that I found very interesting was the way his world paralleled the nine circles of hell in Dante's Inferno. I have a strong suspicion that the rest of the series will continue the parallels with The Divine Comedy, and I'm quite curious to watch it unfold.
Five stars for this debut effort. I'll be watching Brian's career with interest.
There are starships, but these are not your father's starships. There are space pirates, but not the space pirates you were looking for. There is Hell, but it's not...quite...Dante's Hell. Magical firearms, trapped souls, epic space battles, startling images, touches of Persian dualism, wise-ass demigods, necromancers, a zombie chicken, and a marvelous swipe at the bloodthirsty 14th Century Bishop Henry Despenser of Norwich.
And this is the author's first novel. I'm hardly an expert, but I was extremely impressed.
What's key here is the richness of the author's creation. This isn't just an imagined future. Earth is nowhere to be seen, past or present. Brian has created an entire cosmos with its own rules, exotic physics, and even more exotic metaphysics. Half-sentient FTL starships are guided by telepathic pilots who are more partner than master--and can be eaten by the mysterious Wheel if they break the complex rules of steersmanship. The gulf between life and death that we experience here is paper-thin in this ancient cosmos long abandoned by its own gods. Half of your crew might actually be dead men--and you have to look close to tell which is which.
The plot is difficult to discuss without giving too much away. There are constant twists and turns, which sometimes expand to a Byzantine complexity that may be the book's primary (though not critical) flaw. One of the few remaining members of an immortal race searches this strange cosmos for clues about his father's fate and the titanic starship his father designed, on a mysterious mission that eventually takes Jaren Peregrine and his peculiar crew to the center of Hell itself. Strap in and enjoy the ride. I've never seen anything quite like it in my 50-odd years of reading SFF.
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