6/11/2023 0 Comments Impyrium book![]() ![]() Burke offers Hob the opportunity to leave Dusk and to follow in his deceased father’s footsteps as an agent for the Fellowship whose cause is to break free from the Faeregine’s control, Hob agrees to infiltrate the empire as a spy. All three fear their grandmother, the Divine Empress, whose power is crumbling and who seems out of touch with current reality. An able horsewoman, she asks questions and argues for sport. Isabella is cheeky, fiery, and sarcastic but practical. Violet, the oldest of the triplets, is arrogant and haughty, cold and hard like ice. Hazel resists this “order.” As a student of magic she wishes to create things, not destroy them. Now, a caste system privileges some and marginalizes others. Hazel’s family has ruled the empire since the Cataclysm, a catastrophic period which altered the planet’s geography and subordinated humans to supernatural creatures, demons, spirits, and other beings. Despite their different backgrounds, both Hob and Hazel wish to matter, to make a difference, and to fight the injustices they see. Hazel Faeregine is mehrùn, a magical being who has lived her entire life sheltered from hardship in Impyria, where everything is “an explosion of colors and sound, swift riptides of people and money” (106). Hobson Smythe is muir, an ordinary human from a remote settlement called Dusk where everything is “cold and dull, a tiny outpost smothered in snow and pine needles” (106). Two young people, one twelve and the other only thirteen, aspire to change the world. ![]()
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