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Amelia, Vanity, Colin, Quintus and Victor are the only students at a strict English boarding school. Slowly, they discover that they have secret powers and abilities--and that their teachers are much more than they seem. The adventures, and the tangled Greek mythologies that provide the backdrop, are a great deal of fun and quite exciting. Unfortunately, the author is a little too excited by the prospect of tying up Amelia and putting her at the mercy of lecherous old men. Her heaving bosom and
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3 Stars
Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright is both a masterfully brilliant inclusive fantasy and a horrendous, dirty, all over the place mess of a novel. This book contains everything and maybe even including the kitchen sink. It is a science fiction novel filled with mathematics and technical jargon. It is a fantasy filled with magic, flying, and invisible forces. There are gods a plenty most of them straight out of Greek Mythos. The book is a tale of coming of age of a group of Orphans. It is ...more
Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright is both a masterfully brilliant inclusive fantasy and a horrendous, dirty, all over the place mess of a novel. This book contains everything and maybe even including the kitchen sink. It is a science fiction novel filled with mathematics and technical jargon. It is a fantasy filled with magic, flying, and invisible forces. There are gods a plenty most of them straight out of Greek Mythos. The book is a tale of coming of age of a group of Orphans. It is ...more
Five stars for the literary quality of the writing, the numerous allusions and references, and for having some deep underlying philosophy. Minus two stars because the author can't bother to suppress his own fetishes and the whole thing starts to devolve from its high Gene Wolfe inspired aspirations and tone into a petty bondage fantasy worthy of some tawdry "dark romance", thus failing at both. Uggh, and I so wanted to give this five stars after 80 pages or so.
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Well, I'm glad to have finally finished this one. At first it seemed like it was going to be an interesting story, especially with the mythological connections, but I'm really not sure what happened, I really lost interest somewhere along the way. I just kept reading to get to the end to see how it would turn out. And since this is the first of a trilogy, the end was disappointing since nothing gets resolved. I have no desire to continue on with the series to find out how it ends.
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I wasn't bothered by the bondage theme. I had to use wikipedia a lot to keep track of all these gods, though...
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