Peter Vialls

Sorrel is a pilot, rebel and trained sorceress, who starts her tale of adventure walking away from her crashed triplane. Her co-pilot is dead and she is badly injured, but she uses a magical "jasq" creature which she took from a dragonlord named Wrack to begin to heal herself. She is from the surface world, but her damaged plane has fallen into a wide, long, seemingly bottomless and perpetually cloudy crevice in the world. When she is rescued from the crash by a band of human refugees, she discovers that the clouds were hiding another world of overly red vegetation and lantern trees with vicious goblin armies led by sorcerer lizards battling to enslave the human cities and populations. Her first goal is to escape this underworld and get back to the outer world above, but her adventures will have her take on the heroic journey of standing up for these human groups against all odds, especially when she discovers that Wrack has also fallen into this world and is trapped with her. As told through his character Sorrel, the author has constructed a detailed and complex fantasy world full of strange creatures, magical science and plenty of swordplay and hand-to-hand combat. Sorrel is skilled and brash, but allows the reader to know that the outward confidence and condescension she projects is not always true. There are moments where the action appears forced, but for the most part, fans of fantasy adventures will be well satisfied by this heroine's journey.… (más)