The Orphan Fleet eBook Brendan Detzner
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Adventure and strange magic in a city above the clouds! Jiaire is a dock worker at the Mountain Skyport, an independent oasis where airships from across the known world can thaw their engines before they finish their journey across the endless frozen wastes. By day he loads and unloads ships. By night, he dreams of the Show, when characters like Golden Sam, the Reptile, and the mysterious Count do battle under the big top for an audience of thousands.
To its friends, the Mountain offers warmth, smiles, and entertainment. To its enemies, it offers lightning— powerful storms that appear from nowhere and clear the skies of enemy ships. When an invading army attacks and the storms fail to appear, Jiaire must stand up for his home and learn the secrets behind the mystic forces protecting it.
Brendan Detzner’s work has appeared in Podcastle, Chizine, Pseudopod, One Buck Horror, Bizarrocast, Edge of Propinquity, Untied Shoelaces of the Mind, and many other venues. He is the author of the short story collections “Scarce Resources” and “Beasts”, and of the novel “Millersville”. “The Orphan Fleet” is his debut in the fantasy genre.
Praise for The Orphan Fleet
"The Orphan Fleet" is terrific adventure fantasy -- a non-stop tale of action and strange magic on a wind-swept mountain top where abandoned children have forged a free community, servicing far-traveling airships on sturdy wooden platforms. Here masked heroes with names like Golden Sam and The Sparrow are the ultimate celebrities -- and the mysterious Count leaves shivers of terror wherever he treads. When that community is threatened by an admiral who demands the return of his prized daughter, it triggers a terrible war fought in the air, on the ground, and in the old abandoned scaffolding circling the mountain ... a war where Golden Sam may prove himself a true hero after all, and the Count has a terrible role to play."
John O'Neill, Publisher & Editor of Black Gate Magazine
“This novella is a fun adventurous tale of daring and bravery with a twist of magic. It is a very quick read and filled with bold imagination and interesting ideas. I can easily see many a young reader picking up this novella and demanding more stories to follow suit.”
Angela JC at Pooled Ink
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The Orphan Fleet eBook Brendan Detzner Reviews
I received a copy of this book directly from the author who is preparing to publish a sequel. (Ironically, it showed up in an email of things I may be interested in, just a few days ago.) I wasn't sure what to expect, but based on the cover art, I felt like this was going to be similar to a Dreamworks story like "The Road to El Dorado". It wasn't, and the target audience seems undecided, as the story itself is geared towards YA, but unwarrented profanity in the beginning challenged that. (There wasn't a ton of swearing, it was just out of place, like the author was still feeling things out and never went back after deciding that it wasn't right for the audience.)
I always appreciate when an author creates a world for the characters, and Detzner has a good start with this. The story takes place on the mountain, which serves as a service/trade post for flying ships passing through. There was a dialect that wasn't particularly enjoyable to read, but it was consistent among characters who lived there. There is one form of entertainment--elaborate scripted wrestling/fighting matches that are held roughly every month. It was strange, and the description of the match took up a fifth of the book. Great for people who were really into WWE at its prime.
The world building and character development needed some work. I would have felt much more invested in the story if I had a chance to start caring about any of them. The novel was very plot driven, and strange, which would have worked a lot better if I cared if Jiaire saved the day or plummeted to his death. The presence of the Count was also more for convenience than anything else. His back story had potential, but his purpose in the story did not do that justice.
This was a quick read, and has potential. Hopefully the author's next story better develops the world they exist in. With some fine tuning, the strangeness of the mountain people and the count could be very interesting.
Never let it be said that I don't try new things. I may not like half of them, but heck, I still try them.
One of those things are books I wouldn't normally read. Be it their genre, their covers, something in the plot... They're just not my usual one-clicker. Still, that doesn't mean I'll come to love all of them.
Case in point, The Orphan Fleet. A fun, short, and entertaining book, but clearly not one for my tastes. It focused on Jiaire, an orphan living at a place called the Mountain, along with others like him. One day, a military guy tries to take one of them, claiming she's his daighter, and the Orphans wage war on the man with extremely dramatic results.
Sounds exciting, right? Well, it certainly is, but not to the extent I expected it to.
The actions seemed rushed at some points, or too lengthy at others. The mock fights between the masked performers took way too long in the book, and nearly bored me to tears. Jiaire's inner musings fell in that category, too. In most of the story, I felt like I was being told what was going on - not shown.
All in all, this was a... well, you can call it an experience, all right, but not one I might ever repeat. Jiaire and his friends can stay up there in the Mountain, alla happy and stuff, or they can grow up and finally leave, but I can't be bothered by any of this...
***I was given an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The opinion stated in this review is solely mine, and no compensation was given or taken to alter it.***
This story started with a young man, taking a long jump off a vending balloon. The excitement level was cranked up immediately, and the story kept that level of tension for the rest of the first chapter.
I found some of the dialogue hard to understand. References were made to other people without an explanation as to what had happened with them and why they were relevant to the main character or the story.
As the story progressed, the imagery of the puppet show that the characters were attending, was superb, and I could really imagine myself there with them. But as the story unfolded, I found myself getting set adrift by some of what was happening. What was the relevance of the play? Why were the characters so revered? Who was the Count? Where did he come from?
I found this story difficult to follow from almost the outset, which is a shame as the authors use of imagery in describing certain events within the story, was first rate.
I liked the characters but found their individual stories lacking in enough detail to stop me getting confused.
This story was essentially a good one but lacked certain fundamental clarification at the beginning. This then led to confusion later on.
I liked the excitement of Jiaire jumping from ship to ship...that was exhilirating and very easy to imagine.
I also liked the Count as a character but would have benefitted from more explanation about who and what he was, and his part in the story.
All in all, a slightly confusing story populated with certain very interesting characters and lots of very good imagery to carry it along.
It's a shame because other than some interesting and brilliantly described action sequences, there was just a lot of chatter that really didnt explain much.
I don't often read YA, but this one was a lot of fun. If you like steampunk, heavy on the punk, and pirates, and wrestling, then this book is for you. The hero, Jiaire, on the verge of adulthood, finds himself embroiled in a war that could cost him and all his friends their lives. But when offered a chance to end the war, does he have it in him to do what it takes?
I liked it!
Delightful adventure!
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