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Review by Tiffany__ -- We are Voulhire: The Fires of Virko
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The novel We Are Voulhire: The Fires Of Virko by Mathew Tysz, serves as a second installment of the "We Are Voulhire" book series and to say it was set ablaze with mystery and excitement at every turn would be an understatement. The novel carries the torch from the first installment of the series ( "We Are Voulhire: A New Arrival Under Great Skies") and it indeed serves as no disappointment from the anticipation built up in the first novel.
In this novel, Galen and Rowan have returned from Yamon Soul with a new friend called Demetrius, a young monk who has agreed to imbue the strange rock they found in Alcovia. Due to the circumstances involving the destruction of Hillport, Hillport will no longer be providing the city of Magnum Caelum with the much needed steel which Galen planned to use in the production of weapons once he'd finished mastering the art of smithing. The trio now embark on the journey to the industrial city of Virko with the hope of persuading the lord of the city to provide them with the much needed resource.
Virko is a hard-nosed capitalist city ruled by money, where the businessmen and business-owners are the true nobles and the nobles have little to no power outside their title. The city is ruled by Lord Venden who's also the city's founder and father of its capitalist society. Lord Venden has a plan to completely dismantle the feudalist system by bringing up an elected captain after him so that the city would be completely reliant on merchant rule, this decision has set Lord Venden's son and only child, Folcro, who's supposed to inherit his office, to inherit nothing more than a title. Everyone knows Folcro to be a highly intelligent, easy going, if not reclusive young man. He has no qualms with handing over his power. Or so it seems...
We meet Kayden, a noble-man whose family has been able to sustain their power and influence in this industrial town through the acquisition of businesses. Our unlikely trio visit him because he seems to have the right connections to get them in the right places and they hope he can use his connections to get them an audience with the Lord of Virko. He is able to do that but he warns them not have said audience while Folcro is around. He doesn't believe that the future Lord is really as helpless as he seems.
On the other hand an old enemy has taken hold of Hillport, biding his time right under the king's very nose...
I would recommend the book for a mature audience due to the use of profanity (the first of which can be found on page 4 where it was stated "Fresh tears fell. The bitch could hardly keep her eyes open") and violence. Lovers of fantasy, mystery and suspense would also find this a fascinating read. The novel also contains eroticism, although not explicit in description and only mentioned as a passing occurrence and for this I give it a 1 on a scale of 0-5. The book seems professionally edited and I encountered little to no grammatical errors during the course of reading. The one or two I did come across while reading did not take away from the excitement of the novel. I rate this 4 out of 4 stars because I think the book is wonderfully written and I particularly enjoyed the author's unconventional use of words to describe certain places or scenes. I don't particularly find anything I do not like about this book and I'm only looking forward to reading the next book of the series.
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We are Voulhire: The Fires of Virko
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The novel We Are Voulhire: The Fires Of Virko by Mathew Tysz, serves as a second installment of the "We Are Voulhire" book series and to say it was set ablaze with mystery and excitement at every turn would be an understatement. The novel carries the torch from the first installment of the series ( "We Are Voulhire: A New Arrival Under Great Skies") and it indeed serves as no disappointment from the anticipation built up in the first novel.
In this novel, Galen and Rowan have returned from Yamon Soul with a new friend called Demetrius, a young monk who has agreed to imbue the strange rock they found in Alcovia. Due to the circumstances involving the destruction of Hillport, Hillport will no longer be providing the city of Magnum Caelum with the much needed steel which Galen planned to use in the production of weapons once he'd finished mastering the art of smithing. The trio now embark on the journey to the industrial city of Virko with the hope of persuading the lord of the city to provide them with the much needed resource.
Virko is a hard-nosed capitalist city ruled by money, where the businessmen and business-owners are the true nobles and the nobles have little to no power outside their title. The city is ruled by Lord Venden who's also the city's founder and father of its capitalist society. Lord Venden has a plan to completely dismantle the feudalist system by bringing up an elected captain after him so that the city would be completely reliant on merchant rule, this decision has set Lord Venden's son and only child, Folcro, who's supposed to inherit his office, to inherit nothing more than a title. Everyone knows Folcro to be a highly intelligent, easy going, if not reclusive young man. He has no qualms with handing over his power. Or so it seems...
We meet Kayden, a noble-man whose family has been able to sustain their power and influence in this industrial town through the acquisition of businesses. Our unlikely trio visit him because he seems to have the right connections to get them in the right places and they hope he can use his connections to get them an audience with the Lord of Virko. He is able to do that but he warns them not have said audience while Folcro is around. He doesn't believe that the future Lord is really as helpless as he seems.
On the other hand an old enemy has taken hold of Hillport, biding his time right under the king's very nose...
I would recommend the book for a mature audience due to the use of profanity (the first of which can be found on page 4 where it was stated "Fresh tears fell. The bitch could hardly keep her eyes open") and violence. Lovers of fantasy, mystery and suspense would also find this a fascinating read. The novel also contains eroticism, although not explicit in description and only mentioned as a passing occurrence and for this I give it a 1 on a scale of 0-5. The book seems professionally edited and I encountered little to no grammatical errors during the course of reading. The one or two I did come across while reading did not take away from the excitement of the novel. I rate this 4 out of 4 stars because I think the book is wonderfully written and I particularly enjoyed the author's unconventional use of words to describe certain places or scenes. I don't particularly find anything I do not like about this book and I'm only looking forward to reading the next book of the series.
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We are Voulhire: The Fires of Virko
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