The rich world of The Clockwork Prince meets the political turmoil of The Eyre Affair.
As a prodigy in the science of scriptology, Elsa can write new worlds into creation. She lives in one such world called Veldana. When her mother is abducted, Elsa follows her trail into the real world, where she must recruit the help of a secret society of fellow 'mad' geniuses who are similarly gifted in powers of mechanics and alchemy. Here, she meets Leo, a mechanist with a smart mouth and a tragic past.
With Leo's help, she unveils a political conspiracy with her own family at the center. Her mother's most valuable and secret creation, a scriptology book with the power to edit the real world, is also missing, and Elsa must find it and her mother before her enemies do.
This is a wonderful debut novel that is a rich steampunk feel where the world is created using the science of scriptology . Scriptology is a science magic hybrid where the "scientist" can actually create a new world by scripting or writing it into existence. This concept alone is what first drew me into the book. I always drawn to books about books or books about creating worlds. This one echoes a bit like the Glass Sentence series. I was quite delighted that not only does the world focus on the Scriptology science but a wide variety of them to the point where our main character ends up in a home where the kids are masters of different types of sciences at once. The term used in the book for them is Polymath.
The descriptions of the worlds that are visited and also the description of how the Scriptology works and is put into practice are quite well done. The love interest is slow to build and the final parts of the book make it so heart wrenching that you really feel for our main characters. It a wonderful start and i almost hope it expands beyond just the planned two books.
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