The Executioness eBook Tobias S Buckell JK Drummond
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Magic has a price. But someone else will pay. Every time a spell is cast, a bit of bramble sprouts, sending up tangling vines, bloody thorns, and threatening a poisonous sleep. It sprouts in tilled fields and in neighbors' roof beams, thrusts up from between street cobbles, and bursts forth from sacks of powdered spice. A bit of magic, and bramble follows. A little at first, and then more--until whole cities are dragged down under tangling vines and empires lie dead, ruins choked by bramble forest. Monuments to people who loved magic too much.
In the paired novellas, The Alchemist and The Executioness, award-winning authors Tobias Buckell and Paolo Bacigalupi explore a shared world where magic is forbidden and its use is rewarded with the axe. A world of glittering memories and a desperate present, where everyone uses a little magic, and someone else always pays the price.
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Magic has a price.
In Khaim, that price is your head if you're found using it. For the use of magic comes with a side effect it creates bramble. The bramble is a creeping, choking menace that has covered majestic ancient cities, and felled civilizations. In order to prevent the spread of the bramble, many lose their heads to the cloaked executioners of Khaim.
Tana is one of these executioners, taking the job over from her ailing father in secret, desperate to keep her family from starvation. But now her family has been captured by raiders, and taken to a foreign city.
So Khaim's only female executioner begins a quest to bring her family back together. A bloody quest that will change lives, cities, and even an entire land, forever. A quest that will create the legend of The Executioness.
The Executioness eBook Tobias S Buckell JK Drummond
This is the companion volume to Paolo Bacigalupi's novella, "The Alchemist" which I have reviewed separately. This is set in the same world as "The Alchemist" and it doesn't matter which one you read first. Where "The Alchemist" focused on getting rid of the "bramble", the thick thorny vines that increase their presence and their suffocating and isolating effect the more that practitioners us magic, this volume focuses on the story of Tana, daughter of an executioner and along with Tana, the only source of income for the family. Tana works in a butcher shop, cutting meat, which does not provide much income while her father, whenever he is called to perform an execution, earns enough to keep the family going.One day, the bell used to summon Tana's father to do an execution rings and her father is too ill to go, so Tana goes instead. She makes a mess of the execution, taking three blows of her axe to behead the condemned. To her surprise, this earns her much more money than her father usually got and the "Merry Mayor" is pleased with the "show."
On her way back home, she encounters many people, all running in the direction away from Tana's home. She finds her way home only to discover that raiders have killed her father, her lazy drunkard husband and her two sons have been kidnapped. Tana sets out for revenge, has an encounter with four of the invading horde, loses badly, but somehow becomes a legend as "the one who battled the four".She become known as "The Executioness." She knows it is not true, but she uses it. Her travels find her seeking refuge in a caravan traveling the coast and she learns much about the world. Leaving the caravan, she finds she has people who will follow "The Executioness" into battle, fighting the invaders.
This story moves quickly and is enjoyable, with lots of action and good development of the character of Tana. I have read nothing else by Tobias Buckell, so I don't know how this compares to his other works.
As to the rest of the story, I must say that you'll have to read it because telling anymore would be to give away "spoilers" and my rule of thumb as a reviewer is not to do that. I assure you, if you are a fan of action fantasy set in Earth-like worlds, you will likely enjoy this very much.
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The Executioness eBook Tobias S Buckell JK Drummond Reviews
A fun story but I couldn't get into the character. I found it a bit silly and derivative, but it was entertaining.
Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell create a fantasy world that I want to read ten books of, not just these two short stories.
I really like the concept of a shared world for exploration among authors not tied to a major franchise. The world itself is interesting the major point of which, that magic creates the uncontrollable and dangerous bramble, drives the cultural landscape.
I also really enjoyed the idea of a true female protagonist married, a mother doing her best, working to support her family. A normal every day heroine whose armor's effectiveness is not inversely proportional to the amount of skin it exposes.
I liked the story, but - and maybe this is between me and short stories or novellas - I just didn't get enough out of the story. I didn't relate to Tana in the end. I understood her decisions, which seemed more plot driven than character driven, except at a few points. I wanted more development of Tana and the culture in which she dwells. Again, this may be due to the nature of the project and the constraints of a short novella. I finished the story in two sittings, which could have been one if I hadn't started it so late one night.
I recommend this book if you need a quick fantasy fix. I especially recommend this story if you find female protagonists completely unrealistic. If you're looking for something to get lost in, then maybe you should look elsewhere.
I read The Alchemist by mistake.(there are two books by that name) ....which is the book set in the same fictious world...and liked it...so had to read this one! Lots to think about as far as how cultures might try to keep people doing what they are supposed to and keep them from doing harmful things. A bit haunting in some ways.
I am a sucker for this kind of adventure. It is well written -- almost a little like Heinlein - - does not have the character development that Heinlein has, but the action moves along very well. The author takes some successful jabs at society althought he does not offer any solutions except that people in areas of responsibility should possess large amounts of integrity - - - which is a pretty good thing, after all.
I am not a fan of short stories. I like to get invested in the characters and go along for a ride. This story is a fine story, but it is a short story and when it ended, I wanted more, but there was none to be had. If you like short stories, this may be for you. I wish I'd seen that it was just 100 pages, I would have passed it up for another longer book.
I really enjoyed this and The Alchemist. I was attracted to this after I read The Alchemist, which I bought when looking for more of Paolo Bacigalupi's work after I read Windup Girl. My only question now is - these are several years old now - has there been more written about this world?
This is the companion volume to Paolo Bacigalupi's novella, "The Alchemist" which I have reviewed separately. This is set in the same world as "The Alchemist" and it doesn't matter which one you read first. Where "The Alchemist" focused on getting rid of the "bramble", the thick thorny vines that increase their presence and their suffocating and isolating effect the more that practitioners us magic, this volume focuses on the story of Tana, daughter of an executioner and along with Tana, the only source of income for the family. Tana works in a butcher shop, cutting meat, which does not provide much income while her father, whenever he is called to perform an execution, earns enough to keep the family going.
One day, the bell used to summon Tana's father to do an execution rings and her father is too ill to go, so Tana goes instead. She makes a mess of the execution, taking three blows of her axe to behead the condemned. To her surprise, this earns her much more money than her father usually got and the "Merry Mayor" is pleased with the "show."
On her way back home, she encounters many people, all running in the direction away from Tana's home. She finds her way home only to discover that raiders have killed her father, her lazy drunkard husband and her two sons have been kidnapped. Tana sets out for revenge, has an encounter with four of the invading horde, loses badly, but somehow becomes a legend as "the one who battled the four".She become known as "The Executioness." She knows it is not true, but she uses it. Her travels find her seeking refuge in a caravan traveling the coast and she learns much about the world. Leaving the caravan, she finds she has people who will follow "The Executioness" into battle, fighting the invaders.
This story moves quickly and is enjoyable, with lots of action and good development of the character of Tana. I have read nothing else by Tobias Buckell, so I don't know how this compares to his other works.
As to the rest of the story, I must say that you'll have to read it because telling anymore would be to give away "spoilers" and my rule of thumb as a reviewer is not to do that. I assure you, if you are a fan of action fantasy set in Earth-like worlds, you will likely enjoy this very much.
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