Shield of Sea and Space

The Chaos Knight #3

by Erin Hoffman

Vidarian Rulorat, called the Tesseract, a powerful magic-user whose abilities spread across multiple elements, finds himself at war with the Alorean Import Company, a powerful cabal of merchants wealthy enough to buy nations. By opening the gate between worlds, Vidarian released the Starhunter, goddess of chaos. With her coming, wild magic returned to the world of Andovar, bringing with it shape-changers and strange awakened elemental technologies, including many-sailed ships powered by air magic, and mechanical automata lit from within by earth and fire.

Now, Vidarian discovers that the Alorean Import Company is determined to eliminate two-thirds of this new life on Andovar in the hopes of hoarding more magic for themselves in a new, worldwide plutocracy. Along with his human, gryphon, and shapechanger allies, he must stop the Company if he is to safeguard any future for the diverse life of Andovar, including his and Ariadel’s newborn daughter.

With the existence of whole species hanging in the balance, Vidarian is locked in a race for the future of the world.

Genres: Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

300 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Erin Hoffman was born in San Diego and now lives in northern California. She started an online writing group at age 15, and at 18 started as an assistant game designer for Simutronics on DragonRealms. Her other game credits include Shadowbane: The Lost Kingdom, GoPets: Vacation Island, Kung Fu Panda World, and FrontierVille. She also serves on the International Game Developers Association’s board of directors, writes for the award-winning online magazine The Escapist, and has had fiction and poetry in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Electric Velocipede, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and more. In 2004 her blog on game industry quality of life, “ea_spouse”, was covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and LA Times, and is now referenced in numerous game history and corporate history studies.

Erin’s games have won multiple awards and have been played by over 23 million kids and adults worldwide. She is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, and her first novel, Sword of Fire and Sea, is forthcoming from Pyr Books in June 2011.

Reviews

[Brenn · Rating 4 out of 5]

As others have said, this is a great wrap up to the Chaos Knight series. The action literally never stops, which means it keeps you turning the pages. Hoffman also expands on the already huge world she has built, introducing new peoples and lands and situations. Personally, I'm pretty partial to the Grand Library. The book wraps it up with a good twist that still keeps things open enough for future books. Will read again, and no doubt I'll find new stuff each time I do. I love that in a book!

[Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fine conclusion to the Chaos Knight trilogy. Elemental magic, gryphons, automata, shapechangers, goddesses, pyrotechnics, intrigue and not a few moments of heartbreak, presented in clear, graceful prose.

[Nat · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finally had enough time to read this wonderful book and goodness was it great! The ending broke my heart and made it whole again at the same time. I can't wait to see what story unfolds next in this wonderful world.

[Faith Sarfaty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love, love, love shapeshifters, elementals, mythical or not so mythical creatures, goddesses! What's not to love? From the first book in this trilogy its just gotten better! The second book added automations, and the suspense builds! The last book just ties it all up in a neat box with a bow!

[Jocelyn Montalvo Cullum]

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