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Tensy Teasdale: A Warspell Series #1
WarSpell: Miss Midshipman Teasdale
A WarSpell novel, in a world where war ships are just starting to make the change from ballistas to cannon that use a magically created gunpowder.
Tensy Teasdale is forced by financial hardship to give up her studies of magic and join the Kingdom Navy as a midshipman. It's a hard life for her. While women have been serving in the Navy for decades, not everyone accepts them. It's even harder if you're a studious introvert who incurs the ire of a brute of a senior Midshipman who's just failed his Lieutenant’s test again.
And that's just the first of Miss Midshipman Teasdale's misadventures. After that, she has to deal with a Merged mugger who's learning how to deal with this world, an elven carpenter who's considered worse than a necromancer because he works with the dead bodies of trees—not to mention the shell and shot of battle on the high seas.
And if she survives all that, there's the politics of the Admiralty Court to deal with…
Hornblower meets Martin Padway in a WarSpell gameworld.
Miss Midshipman Tensy Teasdale is a new middy in the kingdom navy. She, like Horatio, doesn't start out well and things go downhill from there.
Pete the Cudgel Banyan is a thief and a bully with little thought beyond his next beer, next lay, or how unfair it was that he wasn't born the son of a lord. As a pressed man, his lot may be even worse than Tensy's, because the first officer is a sadist who wants everyone broken to the navy. And Pete's the sort to die in the breaking.
Pete's rebellion offers Tensy a chance to—if not win—at least take her tormentors down with her.
Tensy makes her play at Pete's Captain's Mast and Pete determines to take his lashes like a man.
Enter Peter Bradley, a mechanical engineer who played Pete Banyan years ago in a game of WarSpell. As the 21st lash falls, Pete's heart stutters and would have failed, but Peter Merged with him. Leaving Peter Banyan hail and healthy to take the last three blows of the cat.
And that was just the beginning. The Captain wanted them both off his ship ahead of any sort of investigation. The ship they end up on has its own problems and they all get shipped to Amonrai and the Merged Peter with his knowledge of chemistry knows a much cheaper way to make the wizard’s powder that is used in the cannon.
Tensy Teasdale is forced by financial hardship to give up her studies of magic and join the Kingdom Navy as a midshipman. It's a hard life for her. While women have been serving in the Navy for decades, not everyone accepts them. It's even harder if you're a studious introvert who incurs the ire of a brute of a senior Midshipman who's just failed his Lieutenant’s test again.
And that's just the first of Miss Midshipman Teasdale's misadventures. After that, she has to deal with a Merged mugger who's learning how to deal with this world, an elven carpenter who's considered worse than a necromancer because he works with the dead bodies of trees—not to mention the shell and shot of battle on the high seas.
And if she survives all that, there's the politics of the Admiralty Court to deal with…
Hornblower meets Martin Padway in a WarSpell gameworld.
Miss Midshipman Tensy Teasdale is a new middy in the kingdom navy. She, like Horatio, doesn't start out well and things go downhill from there.
Pete the Cudgel Banyan is a thief and a bully with little thought beyond his next beer, next lay, or how unfair it was that he wasn't born the son of a lord. As a pressed man, his lot may be even worse than Tensy's, because the first officer is a sadist who wants everyone broken to the navy. And Pete's the sort to die in the breaking.
Pete's rebellion offers Tensy a chance to—if not win—at least take her tormentors down with her.
Tensy makes her play at Pete's Captain's Mast and Pete determines to take his lashes like a man.
Enter Peter Bradley, a mechanical engineer who played Pete Banyan years ago in a game of WarSpell. As the 21st lash falls, Pete's heart stutters and would have failed, but Peter Merged with him. Leaving Peter Banyan hail and healthy to take the last three blows of the cat.
And that was just the beginning. The Captain wanted them both off his ship ahead of any sort of investigation. The ship they end up on has its own problems and they all get shipped to Amonrai and the Merged Peter with his knowledge of chemistry knows a much cheaper way to make the wizard’s powder that is used in the cannon.
- GenresFantasy
213 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 15, 2021
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December 28, 2022
Delivered at midnight, read between 7AM and 2:30 PM today. I liked it a lot. The character sketches at the end was very fun giving character stats for the mundanes who merged over to this game world as part of the full character list.
While Vampiress of Londinium is in a world with gunpowder and steam power the world of Midshipman Teasdale is a world where those things are introduced by merged characters during an analog to the Napoleonic Wars on that game world. In this analog Teasdale world King Aurther VIII rules the Kingdom Isles and its empire while in Vampiress the King is Edward VI who came to the throne via the tragic early death of Queen Victoria.
While Vampiress of Londinium is in a world with gunpowder and steam power the world of Midshipman Teasdale is a world where those things are introduced by merged characters during an analog to the Napoleonic Wars on that game world. In this analog Teasdale world King Aurther VIII rules the Kingdom Isles and its empire while in Vampiress the King is Edward VI who came to the throne via the tragic early death of Queen Victoria.
July 20, 2021
Another tale set in the "Warspell" universe, where earthly players of an RPG are drawn into the bodies of their game avatars' analogs. This adventure is set in an alternative to the Napoleonic wars.
October 14, 2021
Loved it!
Well written and fun. I am seriously hoping for a second book which will be on my immediately buy list.
Well written and fun. I am seriously hoping for a second book which will be on my immediately buy list.
March 16, 2022
A vast there. Me Hardies!
Hardcore depiction of a ship in our 1800" . cruel and dirty, but adventure storms through the inventions. The outcome for the hero an is revealed.
Hardcore depiction of a ship in our 1800" . cruel and dirty, but adventure storms through the inventions. The outcome for the hero an is revealed.
November 5, 2022
Very fast read!
Delivered at midnight, read between 7AM and 2:30 PM today. I liked it a lot and it seems to be set in the same world as Vampiress of Londinium or a very close analog but 45 years earlier in that world timeline. The character sketches at the end was very fun giving character stats for the mundanes who merged over to this game world as part of the full character list.
Based on a few stated facts in Vampiress of Londinium that novel is set in a steampunk magic combo world in the year 1877 on our calendar. Being as the game world is a polytheism that hadn't known anything about Christianity the dates are expressed differently but one of the characters flat out states David E. Hughes discovered an effect "this very year" and in our history that year was 1877.
While Vampiress is in a world with gunpowder and steam power the world of Midshipman Teasdale is a world where those things are introduced by merged characters four or five decades before 1877 during an analog to the Napoleonic Wars on that game world. In this analog King James III rules the Kingdom Isles and its empire while in Vampiress the King is Edward VI who came to the throne via the tragic early death of Queen Victoria.
Delivered at midnight, read between 7AM and 2:30 PM today. I liked it a lot and it seems to be set in the same world as Vampiress of Londinium or a very close analog but 45 years earlier in that world timeline. The character sketches at the end was very fun giving character stats for the mundanes who merged over to this game world as part of the full character list.
Based on a few stated facts in Vampiress of Londinium that novel is set in a steampunk magic combo world in the year 1877 on our calendar. Being as the game world is a polytheism that hadn't known anything about Christianity the dates are expressed differently but one of the characters flat out states David E. Hughes discovered an effect "this very year" and in our history that year was 1877.
While Vampiress is in a world with gunpowder and steam power the world of Midshipman Teasdale is a world where those things are introduced by merged characters four or five decades before 1877 during an analog to the Napoleonic Wars on that game world. In this analog King James III rules the Kingdom Isles and its empire while in Vampiress the King is Edward VI who came to the throne via the tragic early death of Queen Victoria.
November 19, 2022
Not exactly "Not exactly Hornblower meets the Merge"
I am looking forward to the continued adventures of Tensey Teasdale .
Likeable characters, and the ever intriguing mix of mundane technology, the Merged, and the magic world of Warspell.
I am looking forward to the continued adventures of Tensey Teasdale .
Likeable characters, and the ever intriguing mix of mundane technology, the Merged, and the magic world of Warspell.
April 15, 2023
I picked this up on Kindle Unlimited by accident - I was searching for something else.
But actually a really good fantasy with an original spin on the magic applied to sailing ships.
Any more would be a spoiler, so I will stop there.
- recommended.
But actually a really good fantasy with an original spin on the magic applied to sailing ships.
Any more would be a spoiler, so I will stop there.
- recommended.
October 21, 2022
I read this under Ring of Fire Press, and loved it
I love this entire series. I have not yet read one I did not enjoy. I hope to see more WarSpell books in the future!
I love this entire series. I have not yet read one I did not enjoy. I hope to see more WarSpell books in the future!
September 5, 2023
I really liked it.
I'm not into magic and fantasy but I know the authors from ring of fire. Wonderful read. It must be magic.
I'm not into magic and fantasy but I know the authors from ring of fire. Wonderful read. It must be magic.
April 27, 2024
How Tensy and Peter met
Tensy joined the navy when she ran out of money for college. Peter was shanghaid and joined Tensy's ship. Together they fight off their enemies.
Tensy joined the navy when she ran out of money for college. Peter was shanghaid and joined Tensy's ship. Together they fight off their enemies.
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