With Havemercy, Shadow Magic, and Dragon Soul, the acclaimed writing team of Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett has fused magic and technology into something that can only be termed magicpunk. Their distinctive style, featuring a chorus of quirky first-person narrators and brilliantly sophisticated world-building, has won these young writers the plaudits of fans and critics. <br>In the Volstov capital of Thremedon, Owen Adamo, the hard-as-nails ex-Chief Sergeant of the Dragon Corps, learns that Volstov's ruler, the Esar, has been secretly pursuing the possibility of resurrecting magically powered sentient robot dragons--even at the risk of igniting another war. That Adamo will not allow. Though he is not without friends--Royston, a powerful magician, and Balfour, a former corpsman--there is only so much Adamo and his allies can do. Adamo has been put out to pasture, given a professorship at the University. Royston, already exiled once, dares not risk the Esar's wrath a second time. And Balfour, who lost both hands in the climactic battle of the war, is now a diplomat who spends most of his time trying to master his new hands--metal replacements that operate on the same magical principles as the dragons and have earned him an assortment of nicknames of which Steelhands is the least offensive. <br>But sometimes help comes where you least expect it. In this case, from two first-year university students freshly arrived in Thremedon from the country: Laurence, a feisty young woman whose father raised her to be the son he never had, and Toverre, her fiance, a brilliant if neurotic dandy who would sooner share his wife-to-be's clothes than her bed. When a mysterious illness strikes the first-year students, Laurence takes her suspicions to Adamo--and unwittingly sets in motion events that will change Volstov forever.

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By:   Danielle Bennett, Jaida Jones
Imprint:   Bantam
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 238mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 37mm
Weight:   680g
ISBN:  

9780553807707

ISBN 10:   0553807706
Series:   Havemercy
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   August 2011
Audience:   General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock at Galaxy Bookshop
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PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF <br>JAIDA JONES AND DANIELLE BENNETT <br>Havemercy <br> I was captured by the pace and the voices of the narrators. Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett have written a really pleasurable book. --Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series <br> An absolute charmer of a book: at once exciting, romantic, and funny. --Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn <br>Shadow Magic <br> Deft characterizations even of minor players, broad humor, convincing dialogue and sure-handed timing . . . make this novel an outstanding example of world-building and good old-fashioned fun. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) <br> A unique and imaginative blend of epic fantasy, steampunk, humor, and heroism. --SF Crowsnest.com <br>Dragon Soul <br> A superb addition to a series that I hope will keep going . . . [ Dragon Soul ] took me in and I could not stop reading it until the end. There is something magicaln

PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF <br>JAIDA JONES AND DANIELLE BENNETT <br>Havemercy <br> I was captured by the pace and the voices of the narrators. Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett have written a really pleasurable book. --Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series <br> An absolute charmer of a book: at once exciting, romantic, and funny. --Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn <br>Shadow Magic <br> Deft characterizations even of minor players, broad humor, convincing dialogue and sure-handed timing . . . make this novel an outstanding example of world-building and good old-fashioned fun. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) <br> A unique and imaginative blend of epic fantasy, steampunk, humor, and heroism. --SF Crowsnest.com <br>Dragon Soul <br> A superb addition to a series that I hope will keep going . . . [ Dragon Soul ] took me in and I could not stop reading it until the end. There is something magicala

PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF <br>JAIDA JONES AND DANIELLE BENNETT <br>Havemercy <br> I was captured by the pace and the voices of the narrators. Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett have written a really pleasurable book. --Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series <br> An absolute charmer of a book: at once exciting, romantic, and funny. --Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn <br>Shadow Magic <br> Deft characterizations even of minor players, broad humor, convincing dialogue and sure-handed timing . . . make this novel an outstanding example of world-building and good old-fashioned fun. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) <br> A unique and imaginative blend of epic fantasy, steampunk, humor, and heroism. --SF Crowsnest.com <br>Dragon Soul <br> A superb addition to a series that I hope will keep going . . . [ Dragon Soul ] took me in and I could not stop reading it until the end. There is something magicalm