Souls of Steel by Eva BrandtMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Imaginative And Darkly Inspired View of a Dangerous Future
This book is incredibly innovative in it’s construction of concept. Selene is the daughter of the High Priestess of Gaia in North America. Sadly Selene has no magic of her own, and is instead drawn to the Chimera, the giant mechanoid constructions that house the souls of mythical beasts. The constructs were gifted to them by Tartarus, God of the Underworld to aid in destroying their foe, the Sun-Dwellers, or apsids. These foe nearly destroyed the Earth until the torment of the planet woke Gaia and Tartarus and they restored their magic into the world to save their planet.
Two hundred years after successfully fighting off the apsids Earth society has fractured into the Gaians who work Earth magic and healing and help rebuild Earth, to one day make it completely habitable again, and the Chimerans, who live in space on a asteroid where they live and train to fight the apsids in space. It also seems that only women can work with Gaia’s magic and only men can work with Tartarus magic. Until Selene. In an incident on Earth, Selene ends up bonding with a Chimeran, and they are forced to accept her for training at the Chimeran Academy, where she is thrust into a dangerous and unfamiliar world where women are treated as objects.
It’s a fascinating book, and I loved Selene, who felt she was very normal and ordinary, but she actually has a loving heart and a spine of steel. She was raised by a powerful woman, who had wisdom that she shared with her daughter, and an influential man, who taught his daughter all about Tartarus, and how to fight. She is unusual both on Earth and in space.
There is a lot unspoken in this book about the motives of the characters, but enough is revealed to tantalising. I couldn’t stop reading, because I wanted to find out what was going on.
I can’t wait to read the next book in the series!
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