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The Pyramids of London (The Trifold Age) Paperback – February 28, 2015

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In a world where lightning sustained the Roman Empire, and Egypt's vampiric god-kings spread their influence through medicine and good weather, tiny Prytennia's fortunes are rising with the ships that have made her undisputed ruler of the air. But the peace of recent decades is under threat. Rome's automaton-driven wealth is waning along with the New Republic's supply of power crystals, while Sweden uses fear of Rome to add to her Protectorates. And Prytennia is under attack from the wind itself. Relentless daily blasts destroy crops, buildings, and lives, and neither the weather vampires nor Prytennia's Trifold Goddess have been able to find a way to stop them. With events so grand scouring the horizon, the deaths of Eiliff and Aedric Tenning raise little interest. The official verdict is accident: two careless automaton makers, killed by their own construct. The Tenning children and Aedric's sister, Arianne, know this cannot be true. Nothing will stop their search for what really happened. Not even if, to follow the first clue, Aunt Arianne must sell herself to a vampire.

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February 28, 2015
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6 x 0.83 x 9 inches
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Born in Sweden and raised in Australia, Andrea K Höst currently lives in Sydney. She writes fantasy, but wanders occasionally into science fantasy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Andrea K Hosth (February 28, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 366 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0987265199
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0987265197
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.08 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.83 x 9 inches

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Andrea K Höst was born in Sweden but raised in Australia - mainly in Townsville, Queensland. She now lives in Sydney.

Andrea writes fantasy and science fantasy, and enjoys creating stories set in worlds which slightly skew our social expectations, and most especially give her female characters something more to do than wait for rescue.

She is the winner of the Best Fantasy Novella Aurealis Award for her novella "Forfeit" (found in the The Towers, the Moon collection). Her novel "The Silence of Medair" was a finalist for the 2010 Aurealis Awards for best fantasy novel, while her novel "And All the Stars" was a finalist for both the 2012 Aurealis Awards and 2012 Cybils Awards.

You can catch the latest news from Andrea at her site: www.andreakhost.com

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mabg

A really good book but read the indices first and persist

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2015

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There are a lot of things to like about this book, and there's one major problem.
On the pro side: the world is fascinating and its cultures and theologies are very complex.
The characters are decidedly unique and the relationships between them feel both real and layered.
The plot sparks and sustains the reader's interest once what's going on finally becomes clear - something that doesn't happen until several chapters into the book.

On the con side: the exceptionally dense world building creates a major obstacle for the reader, and the indices at the back of the book don't provide enough help in sorting things out.

My suggestions: move the indices to the front of the book and group entries by association, not just alphabetically. For instance, there are four distinct types of allegiance possible between gods and beings. The existing index lists them alphabetically by type, so they're all over the place, rather than having one entry titled 'allegiance' with subtitles for 'adopted', 'bestowed', 'born' and 'taken.' Characters should be listed by family, country or association, not by name. The entry on vampirism needs to explain more about how vampires are made and how they live, so the reader can understand Rian's experience in the early chapters and how being 'Bound' to Heriat will affect her and define her relationship with him.

Instead, the author leaves the reader to flounder in what's a very deep sea and it doesn't serve. After finishing the book and rereading the indices, I still have no answers to some of my questions about what happened in some parts of the book, and what some of the choices Rian and Eluned made will actually mean for them in the long term.

In short, however, it's a really good book if you can keep reading long enough to sort out the important parts of what's happening and who's who. It's very well written, the author's understanding of people is deeply rooted, and I ended up caring a lot about some of the main characters. It's mostly the mechanics of some things that still have me stymied, and I expect that future books will help me understand them better.

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BRNZ

Good story but lots of challenging new concepts and words to tackle made it more difficult to get into the flow easily

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2015

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I have read everything Andrea has available for the Kindle and I love her work immensely. Overall I enjoyed this book but there was a LOT of information, new words, different concepts, words used in different ways etc that you were just thrown into the middle of. I think this is aimed at the YA audience, if so it will be a challenge for them, Im a well read educated adult and I struggled with a lot of this. Mostly because there was no context or explanation, you were just dumped into the world and therefore had all the new terminology and concepts just thrown at you and you had to figure it out as you went along.

Beyond that, I enjoyed the characters, esp Rian, and the worldbuilding and setting was lovely. Great action scene and a plot that was engaging and not too complicated. Quite a range of characters and I sometimes forgot who was who.

I certainly look forward to a 5 book series and exploring the world and characters more but this was a challenge esp with the mix of different culture mythology, my brain kept hiccuping.

Perhaps a brief intro or summary of the world in the next book to explain which culture is where, how the gods work, why they are important etc to give us some context?

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Must Read

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015

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I am a huge of Andrea K Höst. I was first introduced to her when stumbling upon her Touchstone series. And what an amazing, satisfying, and now that I'm thinking about it, I must read it again(!) series. But this is not about the Touchstone series.

The Pyramids of London is the first book of at least 5 in The Trifold Age Series. I have had this book on auto-buy far before its synopsis was uploaded. And I am in awe.

Andrea K Höst's world building is phenomenal. If you love to immerse yourself headfirst into a new world with some similarities to our world, yet with profoundly thought out differences, this is the book for you. At times, the immensity of this world was such that it felt like a ponderous weight that rotated slowly on its axis, with me just barely keeping up. Yet, it is a story that is well paced out with much to consider. It's a novel that needs to be savored with every chapter.

If you are looking for romance, much like the first Touchstone book, there may be a hint, but the romance is not central. I love that while there are two perspectives in the book, neither involve the *hopefully* future romance. So much of romance for me involves the tension and the not knowing. And, even though I've finished the book, I'm already torn on who the romance may be.

I cannot wait for the second book. Andrea K Höst is permanently on my auto-buy list.

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Nico Restal

Failed to engage me

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2017

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I've enjoyed all of Höst's books that I've read so far (and am reading one now) except for the boring and sappy Gratuitous Epilogue. At least I finished that one, but this one just failed to make me care about the characters - which is a first for Höst - and the many complex religions didn't exactly make for gripping reading either. I persisted right up 42% and decided I just didn't care enough to try to remember all the characters.

Plus, does Höst dislike cats? The fate of a kitten in this and the authorial abandonment of Ghost - her fate just left hanging - in the Touchstone series (when almost everyone else got a very detailed happy ending) make me wonder.

I'm really enjoying Hunting though (humour! witty banter!) so hey, your taste may very well vary. It's certainly worth giving anything by this author a go as everything I've read so far has been very different in setting, feel, and style.

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martine gilles

restée sur le bord de la route pendant que l'histoire continuait ...

Reviewed in France on October 12, 2015

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Beaucoup de personnages, de dieux, d'avatars de dieux, de vampires, de monstres, d'animaux étranges, qui interagissent, on s'y perd. Les personnages vivent dans une société pleine de codes inconnus et inexpliqués, et incompréhensibles pour moi, surtout pour tout ce qui concerne la multitude d'êtres surnaturels. On est plongés dans une histoire compliquée dès le début et après plus de la moitié du livre c'est encore plus embrouillé. Peut-être que c'est plus facile pour les gens qui ont une bonne connaissance de l'histoire et des mythes égyptiens, ce n'est pas mon cas. En fait je n'ai pas réussi à accrocher à l'histoire.

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Merle

Neue Serie von Andrea Höst

Reviewed in Germany on October 8, 2015

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Komplexe fünfteilige Steampunk-Fantasy-Geschichte. Die bekannte Welt, mit Anleihen aus dem Altertum, wird von verschiedenen Götterrassen, Vampiren, die im Alter zu Stein werden, und ihren Verbündeten beherrscht.

Die Mittdreissigerin Arianne hat sich für 10 Jahre als Blutmahlzeit für den mächtigen Vampier Msrah verdungen, in der Hoffnung, so den Mörder ihres geliebten Bruders zu finden und gleichzeitig Geld zu verdienen, da sie jetzt für ihre minderjährigen Nichten und den Neffen verantwortlich ist. Was dummerweise schief geht, sie wird vom falschen Vampir, von Comfrey Makepeace, gebissen und gebunden. Die Suche gestaltet sich um einen verschwundenen, von ihrem Bruder konstruierten Roboter und den Kristall, der ihn belebt. Diese seltenen Kristalle, welche Energie liefern, gehen zur Neige, und Arianne versucht das Geheimnis darum herum zu lösen.

Man wird mitten in die Geschichte hinein geworfen mit vielen und fremden Namen. Zum Glück gibt es ein Glossar, so dass man nicht ganz so hilflos ist. Die Welt ist recht kompliziert und es dauert einige Kapitel, bis man in der Story drin ist. Die diversen Charaktere werden gut aufgebaut und sind fesselnd, interagieren miteinander. Ein interessanter Serien-Anfang.

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Redaurella

Pharoahs and Airships!

Reviewed in Australia on February 6, 2016

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Firstly, I love the title of this book. It combines two of my favourite things, pyramids and London. Also, although it isn't something you can deduce from the cover or title, it has vampires, an adventuress aunt, and steampunkery.
Arianne Seaforth, or "Rian", makes a bargain to enter into "blood service" with a vampire lord. In England, known as Prytennia, vampires have spread their culture and power. She makes the bargain so that she can investigate the death of her brother. But an unexpected attack occurs, and she finds herself preparing for a new kind of life.
Her nieces and nephew are high spirited orphans who join her on her quest.
This is a long book and it introduces a lot of places, people, ideas and mythology which makes it challenging to read. However I enjoyed the world that Host has created, a mixture of ancient Rome, ancient Egypt and Victorian England, and it has scope for many more adventures.

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LD

beautiful

Reviewed in Germany on June 27, 2015

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This is not my favourite of the author's books (which would be the Medair duology) but is is still a fascinating, rich and complex story. Ms. Höst is my favourite contemporary author, her writing is beautiful, her imagination fantastic and her love stories move outside of the ordinary standard lines. This story is set in a very complex world and one has to be somewhat patient until one has a decent grasp on all the basics of the world she has spun but it is well worth it.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2015

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great

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