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Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero (2009)

by Dan Abnett(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0007327692 (ISBN13: 9780007327690)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Angry Robot

review 1: A strange book, one of the few that can be said to "galumph." The opening is something like 20 pages of description about a rainstorm, which sounds horrible but was gut-bustinglypo funny in places. Set in an alternate 2009 in an England that never knew science, only magic, and populated by characters with a "Pirates of the Carribean" sensibility. Rushed in spots and scant in others. A good cellphone book.
review 2: During the Renaissance Leonardo discovered how to use magic for practical things and thus science never happened in Europe and in the 21th century a British-Spanish commonwealth lives in a sort of eternal Elizabethan age ruled by one Elizabeth after another. That is Dan Abnett's premise in the romp called Triumff, Her Majesty's Hero. It's swash b... moreuckling, rip roaring action as full of outrageous puns as any Shakespeare comedy. Sir Rupert Triumff, a discoverer, swordsman and rascal in the image of Drake, rides and rather fumbles his way to the rescue as dark forces plot to overthrow Glorianna, Elizabeth XXX. The sword fights are as spectacular as anything you would look for in a Pirate movie with Johnny Depp and often enough much funnier. 21st Century Elizabethan London, stinks as much as it did in the fifteen hundreds and there is the stink of wild magic overlaying it. Intelligent fun as well as page turning suspense. Can't wait to see what Triumff's next adventure is going to be. less

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