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Memory's Claws
They knew their luck had to change.
They just didn’t expect it to get worse.
Fleeing from a disastrous contract, the crew of the sky ship Warrior are desperate to return to good, old-fashioned piracy.
They know a little light looting and perfectly peaceful pillaging will restore the con to ‘confidence’, the fun to ‘dysfunctional’, and the ease to ‘please can our lives be simple again?’.
If ‘simple’ means being atomised and remade on the whim of a malevolent and obsessive consciousness; magical meltdowns; crash landings; execution orders; fighting the dead, the nearly dead, the should-be dead and the triple-cooked gourmet dead - then their wish is about to come true.
Otherwise... no.
Destiny is waiting, ready to put the crew in ‘screwed’, and the die in ‘disobedience’ as the Warrior learns that Memory’s blissfully warm arms end in painfully sharp claws.
They just didn’t expect it to get worse.
Fleeing from a disastrous contract, the crew of the sky ship Warrior are desperate to return to good, old-fashioned piracy.
They know a little light looting and perfectly peaceful pillaging will restore the con to ‘confidence’, the fun to ‘dysfunctional’, and the ease to ‘please can our lives be simple again?’.
If ‘simple’ means being atomised and remade on the whim of a malevolent and obsessive consciousness; magical meltdowns; crash landings; execution orders; fighting the dead, the nearly dead, the should-be dead and the triple-cooked gourmet dead - then their wish is about to come true.
Otherwise... no.
Destiny is waiting, ready to put the crew in ‘screwed’, and the die in ‘disobedience’ as the Warrior learns that Memory’s blissfully warm arms end in painfully sharp claws.
471 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2024
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About the author
F.J. Mitchell
2 books1 followerFJ began her life in Hampshire but has lived on a farm with her family in the wild west of Wales for over twenty years.
Having merrily wasted her history degree from the moment she received it, FJ decided to keep on doing so by writing about magical flying ships, sharks with jet packs, weaponised gazpacho, and swashbuckling sky pirates with incredibly good hair.
She blames her time raising animals and children for combining what was an already lively sense of the ridiculous with the desire to live in a fantasy world; and the result is The Barsian Job, a six-book series for anyone who ever wanted to break the fourth wall and demand to speak to the manager.
FJ guarantees that her books are more exciting than chasing sheep around a field, funnier than watching a beloved child faceplant in the mud and warmer than losing your welly in the muck heap. Trust her, she’s an expert.
Having merrily wasted her history degree from the moment she received it, FJ decided to keep on doing so by writing about magical flying ships, sharks with jet packs, weaponised gazpacho, and swashbuckling sky pirates with incredibly good hair.
She blames her time raising animals and children for combining what was an already lively sense of the ridiculous with the desire to live in a fantasy world; and the result is The Barsian Job, a six-book series for anyone who ever wanted to break the fourth wall and demand to speak to the manager.
FJ guarantees that her books are more exciting than chasing sheep around a field, funnier than watching a beloved child faceplant in the mud and warmer than losing your welly in the muck heap. Trust her, she’s an expert.
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December 24, 2024
I was so excited to find out the second book in the Barsian Job was out - I've been on tenterhooks since I finished Destiny's Boot earlier this year and lots of the people who I've recommended it to and found they loved it too have been waiting too! Come on FJ, we need more of these! Keep them coming!
So back to Memory's Claw - the action picks up right where we left of at the end of Destiny's Boot and then on to a little backstory which is great - reading the first book I wondered how the crew had come together so it satisfied my curiousity. We swiftly though get back to the action as the crew get sucked into another mission. The action never really stops after that - so much action and some really sticky situations which they skillfully navigate their way through but they just never seem to catch a break whilst all the time there is a feeling that the whole crew is being manipulated by an unknown force.
This is genuinely a rollercoaster of action - FJ really weaves the action bringing it to life through the actions of the crew and I was not disappointed. As I said earlier in the review I just need more of the Warrior crew's
So back to Memory's Claw - the action picks up right where we left of at the end of Destiny's Boot and then on to a little backstory which is great - reading the first book I wondered how the crew had come together so it satisfied my curiousity. We swiftly though get back to the action as the crew get sucked into another mission. The action never really stops after that - so much action and some really sticky situations which they skillfully navigate their way through but they just never seem to catch a break whilst all the time there is a feeling that the whole crew is being manipulated by an unknown force.
This is genuinely a rollercoaster of action - FJ really weaves the action bringing it to life through the actions of the crew and I was not disappointed. As I said earlier in the review I just need more of the Warrior crew's
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