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Mechanique (The Circus Tresaulti, Book 1)

Written by Genevieve Valentine
Illustrated by Kiri Moth

Average Score: 83(4)

Come inside and take a seat, the show is about to begin...

Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless Elena and her aerialists who perform on living trapezes. War is everywhere, but while the Circus is performing, the world is magic.

That magic is no accident: Boss builds her circus from the bones out, molding a mechanical company that will survive the unforgiving landscape. But even a careful ringmaster can make mistakes.

Two of Tresaulti's performers are entangled in a secret standoff that threatens to tear the circus apart just as the war lands on their doorstep. Now the Circus must fight a war on two fronts: one from the outside, and a more dangerous one from within.

Book Details

Fantasy
Paperback, 320 Pages
Published by Prime Books on April 25, 2011
ISBN-10 1607012537
ISBN-13 978-1607012535

Reviews


Fantasy Literature | Marion Deeds
Review Rating: 95
Like the audience watching Steno's and Bird's acrobatic act, I am silenced by awe.
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Locus Online | Faren Miller
Review Rating: 80
Beyond every revelation, setback and dramatic moment, the wonder remains.
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Publishers Weekly
Review Rating: 80
Fans of grim fantasy will love this menacing and fascinating debut. (Starred Review)
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Strange Horizons | Abigail Nussbaum
Review Rating: 80
Though it often reads like a short story inflated to novel length, there is a greater complexity to it, and a greater ambition, that I can't help but appreciate and value over Morgenstern's more cohesive, but less affecting, work.
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