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In a world where magic is intrinsic to the fabric of everyday life, two kingdoms, centuries-long enemies, have long sought a powerful magical weapon that will win them lasting dominance. But neither realm is ready when they are both attacked by the Bottom-Dwellers, a bitter people whose own land was destroyed, and who now live only to take vengeance on those they blame for a wretched life in the storm-tossed abyss they inhabit. Using contramagic strengthened by blood sacrifice to attack the world above, they threaten to bring down whole cities, or even the island kingdoms themselves. Freya and Rosia are forced to put aside their age-old conflict to defend themselves, or risk losing everything.
As the Bottom-Dwellers' contramagic eats away at the magic of the dragons that helps protect the world above, a former dragon-riding hero gathers a ragtag group to form a new dragon brigade, the one desperate hope of the two kingdoms to defeat the fiends who threaten their world. As the effects of contramagic bring the world ever closer to disaster, the new dragon brigade fight the vengeful adversary. Their high-flying heroics will be to no avail, though, unless they can somehow uncover forbidden knowledge, long hidden by the Church, without which they will never be able to prevent the world's destruction.
Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes deliver yet another exciting dragon brigade adventure in Storm Riders.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
- Sales Rank: #675922 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-07-16
- Released on: 2013-07-16
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
The world inhabited by the rival empires of Freya and Rosia is on the brink of disaster. The Bottom Dwellers, bent on revenge, are destroying every magical construct they can reach. Eventually, this will cause Freya and Rosia to fall, literally—the known world floats on a gas called “the Breath of God.” Former Dragon Brigade captain Stephano, leader of our intrepid band of adventurers, has information to get back to his mother—and thus the Rosian court—from a Freyan spy who realizes that the only way to defeat the Bottom Dwellers is to unite Freya and Rosia. Of course, as the story begins, they’re trapped on an island. That’s not all: there are secrets considered heretical by the church, which are key to understanding the enemy’s “contramagic.” A very solid piece of epic fantasy, with conspiracy and plotting as well as a great deal of action, Storm Riders carries on an entertaining story to a cliff-hanger that guarantees readers will want the next volume. --Regina Schroeder
Review
“The multifaceted action and well-drawn characters will keep any fantasy fan's excitement at feverish pitch, a particularly impressive feat for a middle book.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review on Storm Riders
“The novel is a great ride, offering shifting political alliances, thrilling battle sequences, angst-y romance and hairpin plot twists.” ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review on Storm Riders
“A very solid piece of epic fantasy, with conspiracy and plotting as well as a great deal of action, Storm Riders carries on an entertaining story to a cliff-hanger that guarantees readers will want the next volume.” ―Booklist on Storm Riders
About the Author
MARGARET WEIS is the internationally bestselling author of The Dragonlance Chronicles, Darksword Trilogy, and The Deathgate Cycle. She lives in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
ROBERT KRAMMES is a game designer and the general manager at Aztec Video Productions.
He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
a definite improvement over the first book
By Sneaky Burrito
This is the second book in a trilogy so it is definitely not the place to start (Shadow Raiders is the first volume.) I was not terribly enthusiastic about book one, but I think book two is an improvement -- I liked it enough to continue immediately on to book three.
There were a couple of changes between book one and this volume. One is that the series switched publishers, from DAW to Tor. I do notice differences in the quality of editing between these two publishers, with Tor being my preference in that regard. And this book *did* seem to be more tightly edited, despite the fact that it was still over 700 pages.
A second change, and this may be related to the first, is that there was a LOT less infodumping. It seemed like every new character, building, concept, or town (or even street) introduced in the previous book got at least a couple of pages of unnecessary backstory in book one. There was MUCH less of this type of content in book two, and it made for a far better book. (I am fine with backstory that contributes to the understanding of current events. But I get a little angry when I have to wade through unnecessary information to follow the plot.)
At any rate, I feel the writing and editing improved significantly over volume one. One reason for this may be that we already knew most of the characters and locations, so there wasn't a need to repeat what we'd already heard. Whatever the reason, I'm grateful for it.
This book is not without some continuity issues, however. One example. Rodrigo is one of the POV characters; he is the second son of a noble family. Early in book one, just as he is about to undertake a journey, he finds out his father has died. He has to leave town in a hurry and remains away from his home for a period of months (at least). For much of that time, he is stranded on a deserted island with his traveling companions. But suddenly, as soon as he has arrived back home, though he has not stopped anywhere in the meantime, he is flush with cash because his older brother has continued providing him with an allowance as his father did. My problem here is that there is simply not enough time for him to have found out about the allowance, nor is there time for him to have gone anywhere to collect it. This is just one incident, true, but it is meant to be a representative example of several similar types of issues in the book. Especially considering there are two authors, someone should have caught this.
An additional problem I have is that the main villains we encounter (a sorceress and her apprentice) are a bit too one-dimensional for my liking. They go around seeking revenge for something that happened to people (who do not seem to have been their ancestors) centuries ago. They torture and kill to fuel their magic. Etc. I like more complex villains than this. For what it's worth, I feel that the protagonists (and there are quite a few) are appropriately flawed but are still sympathetic. I was glad to see them fighting amongst themselves, as odd as that may sound -- when people are thrown into tense situations, sometimes they have different opinions. And sometimes they stop speaking to one another. So I thought the protagonists' responses and actions were largely believable.
I liked the plot well enough. There were a few slow spots, but nothing dragged enough to make me lose interest. It got fairly exciting towards the end (I jumped into the next book right away). I enjoyed how people who had formerly been rivals and/or antagonists were thrust into situations where they had to work together and gain one another's trust.
I realize this has been rather low on specifics. As I mentioned earlier, this is not the point at which to start this series. And book one gives you all the background information you will need (and then some). This book is fairly recent (as of the writing of this review), but it is a *type* of book that is more fitted to a decade or two ago. It's not the gritty, dark stuff that's popular today. (In a way, that's refreshing.) It's largely political, with much maneuvering for position/supremacy/resources between powerful nations. There are spies and plots. Many of the main characters are of noble background, but not all of them are. Technology-wise, travel is largely by airship and guns of various sorts are available, though they're not reliable (have to worry about reloading, wet powder, etc.). The interplay between magic, technology, and religion is interesting but not really developed as much as it could have been. As for magical creatures, they're primarily limited to flying beasts -- dragons (intelligent), wyverns and griffins (generally trainable but not always easy to work with), and giant bats capable of carrying riders (we don't learn a lot about these; they seem to exist mostly to get shot down).
If you read the first book and enjoyed it, most of your favorite characters are back. The previous volume focused mainly on the "Cadre of the Lost" -- Stephano and Rodrigo (nobles from the country of Rosia), Dag (a former mercenary), and Miri and Gythe (sisters who are Trundlers, a group that's essentially the same as Gypsies but with small flying houseboats). We were more sympathetic to them than we were to some of their rivals, like Sir Henry Wallace (a spy chief from the rival country of Freya) and Dubois (an agent of the Grand Bishop of the Rosian church). But we gain more of an appreciation for Dubois and Wallace and some of their colleagues in this book. Father Jacob Northrup (a priest in the Rosian church) and Sir Ander Martel (a knight and bodyguard to Jacob) also return. You'll recognize a lot of other familiar names from book one, as well. Although there are multiple POV characters and storylines, I feel that the authors, overall, did a good job of balancing page time for each one according to its relative importance. There are a couple of statements that Gythe and Jacob make (in Gythe's case, she signs rather than speaks) that may not seem to have a lot of support at first, but an explanation is forthcoming in book three.
Anyway, despite the problems, I found this book to be an improvement on the previous volume, with the third book being at least as good as this one, if not better. 3.5 stars.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great series!
By Michael B
Book 2 of the Dragon Brigade series, Storm Riders is a fun read. I loved the first book and this one is just as good. There are a lot of great characters in this book. The great thing about the characters is that you'll enjoy the bad guys just as much as the good. The book is easy to read. I've read many of Margaret Weis books and am a big fan. Weis and Krammes have created an intriguing world. I enjoy the flow between action, political intrigue and mystery. Magic in this world has a unique flavor. There are crafters that use symbols to create magic by infusing items to perform tasks. The most common use is to infuse their flying ships with protection from cannons. But there is an enemy that uses contramagic, which erases these symbols. The problem is that the Church has banned the study - even the mention - of contramagic. So how will the enemy be defeated? The book is full of fun. This is a must read series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Best science fantasy book I've read in five years
By Amazon Customer
I enjoyed the first book in this series, and rated it above average. Storm Riders, the second book in the Dragon Brigade, is probably the best science fantasy book I've read in five years. The characters are more like real people than classical archetypes; nobody is simply good or evil. The action is non-stop.
If I don't get my research grant submitted on time, it's because I couldn't put down this book.
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