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Pure Impurity #1
Arter
For a hundred thousand years, Sumatta has reigned as the source of all life on the planet Arter. Arter is a pangean continent whose skies are filled by a constant aurora and whose science is based off of aten, small bits of energy captured by nature which harness the fundamental forces of nature.
Unel seeks to use aten to connect Arterians through their dreams in hopes of one day allowing Arterians to communicate through the mind directly. Finding the right aten and the right design for his device, the draumr, proves frustrating, and he finds himself relying on the support of his bonded (wife) to complete the project.
As he discovers the necessary formula and they begin a family, Sumatta brings a message. Sumatta, Guardian of Ages, is bringing a message of a new age which will change Arter forever and give new meaning to Unel's hopes for the draumr device.
This story was 6 years in the making and is the first in a series of books which will take us deeper into the world-building of a universe of universes filled with characters who seek to better themselves, save the worlds the know, and the gods who play amongst them.
Unel seeks to use aten to connect Arterians through their dreams in hopes of one day allowing Arterians to communicate through the mind directly. Finding the right aten and the right design for his device, the draumr, proves frustrating, and he finds himself relying on the support of his bonded (wife) to complete the project.
As he discovers the necessary formula and they begin a family, Sumatta brings a message. Sumatta, Guardian of Ages, is bringing a message of a new age which will change Arter forever and give new meaning to Unel's hopes for the draumr device.
This story was 6 years in the making and is the first in a series of books which will take us deeper into the world-building of a universe of universes filled with characters who seek to better themselves, save the worlds the know, and the gods who play amongst them.
305 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2022
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About the author
Sylas Seabrook
24 books26 followersSylas Seabrook holds a degree in Mathematics and minored in Computer Information Systems. In 2020, he left the technology industry to pursue his dream of writing, publishing his first book, Arter, in 2022.
The Rise of Tribinius Cantus is his current, most popular project. It tells the story of a bipolar 16yo boy born without his limbs who stands to inherit one of the largest corporations on Earth, but discovers an 1100 year old secret and pledges to expose it to the light of day. This epic 10 book series takes us on the wild journey of Tribinius Cantus as he uncovers the truth, risks it all, and is forced to discover himself. It has an ambitious release schedule of 1 book every 3 months for 3 years, culminating with the book Jarev Reyes. The final book in the series carries a lofty promise: "Spoilers. Jarev Reyes knew them all. Anyone who read his story would know where it all began and where it all ends."
The Rise of Tribinius Cantus holds a special place in Sylas' heart as it has a bipolar main character--Sylas is bipolar. One of its goals is to take the reader inside the mind of a bipolar person to help build empathy in a disorder which is difficult to understand.
Fantastical worlds, new species and civilizations, imaginative takes on familiar tropes, and much more await those who join Sylas' journey into fiction. Come join us!
The Rise of Tribinius Cantus is his current, most popular project. It tells the story of a bipolar 16yo boy born without his limbs who stands to inherit one of the largest corporations on Earth, but discovers an 1100 year old secret and pledges to expose it to the light of day. This epic 10 book series takes us on the wild journey of Tribinius Cantus as he uncovers the truth, risks it all, and is forced to discover himself. It has an ambitious release schedule of 1 book every 3 months for 3 years, culminating with the book Jarev Reyes. The final book in the series carries a lofty promise: "Spoilers. Jarev Reyes knew them all. Anyone who read his story would know where it all began and where it all ends."
The Rise of Tribinius Cantus holds a special place in Sylas' heart as it has a bipolar main character--Sylas is bipolar. One of its goals is to take the reader inside the mind of a bipolar person to help build empathy in a disorder which is difficult to understand.
Fantastical worlds, new species and civilizations, imaginative takes on familiar tropes, and much more await those who join Sylas' journey into fiction. Come join us!
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September 24, 2022
This was a wonderful read! If you're a fan of sci-fi mysteries, and love being taken on a journey into another world, this one's for you! The book incorporates lucid dreaming and the art of mastering control of your dreams. The characters are eccentric and entertaining, and the story takes you through quite a few twists & turns. Definitely recommend!
December 31, 2022
Loved the way the world was portrayed and described. it made it very easy to picture the place in my mind. I felt the characters were perfect for the roles they did in this novel and found this to be one of those books that hard to put down after getting into it a bit. I think anyone who enjoys the Sci-Fi genre will appreciate this novel
October 23, 2022
Loved the narration of Shannon Liesner
This book will have you on an emotional roller coaster. There's romance, drama, suspense, action and adventure; it's a good mix of sci-fi meets fantasy. This story takes you through quite a few twists & turns
Loved listening
This book will have you on an emotional roller coaster. There's romance, drama, suspense, action and adventure; it's a good mix of sci-fi meets fantasy. This story takes you through quite a few twists & turns
Loved listening
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September 19, 2023I am one of the judges of team Space Girls for the SPSFC3 contest. This review is my personal opinion. Officially, it is still in the running for the contest, pending any official team announcements.
Status: Cut
Reached 29% of the novel (I cut it here because it was the ending of a chapter)
This story is... confusing. The action takes places in a moon-planet called Arter (?) inhabited by a humanoid race where most characters have blue eyes and red or brown hair. Officially, everyone is infertile. Now, this is quite a cool concept, since it changes the entire world's dynamics. If women have zero fears of having an unplanned pregnancy from the beginning of history, then she would be able to stay in school and doesn't need to get married at a young age. Society would believe women never getting married is the norm, and would find polygamy to be perfectly acceptable because there are no concerns about the inheritance of their parents' assets.
This concept was slightly explored in an anime called Twelve Kingdoms. That story happens in a parralel mini world where the native humans and animals are always infertile. Babies are born from magical trees that grow in pods and crash on the ground upon birth. The Twelve Kingdoms story mentions a male and female couple are expected to place a ribbon on a magic tree and pray a child will grow. However, the story hints Rakushun's mother was always single and accidentally placed her ribbon on an animal growing tree (which is why Rakushun can shift between a human and large talking mouse form). Basing on the theory that single parents can successfully have children, it makes sense the Twelve Kingdoms is a far less patarichal society than our own. It is very normal to see female queens and women working in important government positions. In the Twelve Kingdoms, humans from our own world can sometimes get trapped in magical tornado storms known as shoku and have created their own communities in the kingdoms. They tend to be ostracized due to their poor language skills and because natives think their method of internal reproduction to be unclean.
The reason why I mention the Twelve Kingdoms comparison is because there is one way humans in the Arter book can reproduce: by obtaining the magical seed of fertility from a demigod insect that roams the world. These insects are somewhat rare and we don't know whether obtaining their seed kills the animal or not. Therefore, the people that have children tend to be the most economically affluent. Once two people consume this egg, they are permanently fertile and can theoretically impregnate anyone that also consumed it. I really liked this reproduction concept. It would have made a very cool society where polyamorous families create their own communes and everyone raises their own neighborhood together. Since these people are already wealthy, I could envision a world where great political power is shifted between family communes (there might even be certain degrees of incest involved). If the book's worldbuilding had been rewritten with this kind of social structure in mind, it would have worked insanely well and not harm the plot of the story at all.
Our protagonist would still be an oddball university researcher that spends his days building a dream sharing machine (I am assuming this machine is designed to lure more fertility insects into the cities?). We would still have an arrogant politician try to attain power and the mysterious military assasin side plot would also work. Even better, changing the society dynamics would not affect in any way the other subplot of a female teenage priest apprentice that is destined to become the next oracle.
Unfortunately, this fabulous worldbuilding concept is not used and we get a society very much like our own where women are sidelined and ironically, society hates children (which didn't make sense to me since children are such a rare and valuable asset for the affluent). I didn't understand why characters feel pity for families that have 4 children. Does it mean less wealthy people by dumb luck sometimes snatch fertility insects and become a social burden when they start producing large families? This story concept would have been fun to explore and also worked quite well with the university guy named Unel.
I could envision a story where Unel is so hypefixiated with his invention that he doesn't even realize he consumed the fertility insect by accident. From the first 1/3 of the story, I am still unsure what he is supposed to do in the plot. He spends 90% of the time obsessed with his machine and then oops, I forgot! I am married! Wait... I have a wife? Yikes, I feel sorry for Trellia. Having a character that only cares about his own pursuits that he ignores his wife in a society where women don't need to stick with a specific sexual partner could have created a fascinating dynamic.
It is such a bummer how the book handles this relationship dynamic. If women can have any sexual partner and job choice, why would she stay with a man that doesn't pay any attention to her? Is it because they both come from powerful commune families that wish to join forces? Is it because Trellia's family owns Unel's university and he only married her to get a tenure job to pursue his interests? So many possibilities that went unexplored!
Instead of having a character that tries to threaten Unel to pay more attention to her, Trellia is... uhh... What does Trellia do for a living anyways? All we know about her is that she swooshes her hips like a maraca and thinks her husband is so perfect. Is she under some kind of magical spell? Does she just stay at home doing nothing all day except daydream about when he will remember a few weeks from now he is married and visit her? Maybe she just spends her time swaying her hips at home and brush her hair. Quite frankly, I felt very ambivalent about Trellia. She is just... there and does... uh... swoosh her hips.
In fact, it seems like every adult female character in the book swooshes her hips. Are their hips like really, really big? Do women learn belly dancing in school and everyone likes to do this? Is it a tic? Or does the swaying hip movement attract the fertility insects? These things make me scratch my head.
I was pretty invested in the story of the teenage priestess that for no apparent reason was chosen as the oracle and future liason between the Arterians and their worm shaped god Sumattra. She was the only female character that didn't spend her days doing the hip swoosh thing or slobber over a particular male Arterian all day. The idea that she is unwilling to fulfill the priest annointing was quite fascinating and should have been explored more. There are no hints she chose to become an oracle, or the mechanics of why a certain person has to become the oracle in the first place.
In fact, for a planet where fertility is so heavily restricted, I was expecting it to be heavily religious. It would be logical to see people swoon the temple and offer their gratitude she is destined to become the next liason. All we get in the story is how everyone is well... unusually agnostic. It feels very contrary to ancient human civilizations that venerated fertility gods.
At almost 30% of the book, I still have no idea what the story is. It feels the book is taking far too long trying to set the stage for the plot. Is it a marriage story? Murder plot? Political drama? Religious dystopia? Sometimes this is okay for me because epic fantasy takes forever to develop worldbuilding, but I would have wanted the stakes to be offered by now. I have read tons of books that clutch you within the first 20%, and even if you are still discovering new things, you have a hunch where the plot is going. In this book, I feel the story is taking too long and didn't get a vibe about any of the female characters. Nobody seems to be in command of her life and is only blindly following the orders of their male counterparts. While I think there's some interesting worldbuilding concepts in this novel, I am sorry to declare this is a cut for me.
Status: Cut
Reached 29% of the novel (I cut it here because it was the ending of a chapter)
This story is... confusing. The action takes places in a moon-planet called Arter (?) inhabited by a humanoid race where most characters have blue eyes and red or brown hair. Officially, everyone is infertile. Now, this is quite a cool concept, since it changes the entire world's dynamics. If women have zero fears of having an unplanned pregnancy from the beginning of history, then she would be able to stay in school and doesn't need to get married at a young age. Society would believe women never getting married is the norm, and would find polygamy to be perfectly acceptable because there are no concerns about the inheritance of their parents' assets.
This concept was slightly explored in an anime called Twelve Kingdoms. That story happens in a parralel mini world where the native humans and animals are always infertile. Babies are born from magical trees that grow in pods and crash on the ground upon birth. The Twelve Kingdoms story mentions a male and female couple are expected to place a ribbon on a magic tree and pray a child will grow. However, the story hints Rakushun's mother was always single and accidentally placed her ribbon on an animal growing tree (which is why Rakushun can shift between a human and large talking mouse form). Basing on the theory that single parents can successfully have children, it makes sense the Twelve Kingdoms is a far less patarichal society than our own. It is very normal to see female queens and women working in important government positions. In the Twelve Kingdoms, humans from our own world can sometimes get trapped in magical tornado storms known as shoku and have created their own communities in the kingdoms. They tend to be ostracized due to their poor language skills and because natives think their method of internal reproduction to be unclean.
The reason why I mention the Twelve Kingdoms comparison is because there is one way humans in the Arter book can reproduce: by obtaining the magical seed of fertility from a demigod insect that roams the world. These insects are somewhat rare and we don't know whether obtaining their seed kills the animal or not. Therefore, the people that have children tend to be the most economically affluent. Once two people consume this egg, they are permanently fertile and can theoretically impregnate anyone that also consumed it. I really liked this reproduction concept. It would have made a very cool society where polyamorous families create their own communes and everyone raises their own neighborhood together. Since these people are already wealthy, I could envision a world where great political power is shifted between family communes (there might even be certain degrees of incest involved). If the book's worldbuilding had been rewritten with this kind of social structure in mind, it would have worked insanely well and not harm the plot of the story at all.
Our protagonist would still be an oddball university researcher that spends his days building a dream sharing machine (I am assuming this machine is designed to lure more fertility insects into the cities?). We would still have an arrogant politician try to attain power and the mysterious military assasin side plot would also work. Even better, changing the society dynamics would not affect in any way the other subplot of a female teenage priest apprentice that is destined to become the next oracle.
Unfortunately, this fabulous worldbuilding concept is not used and we get a society very much like our own where women are sidelined and ironically, society hates children (which didn't make sense to me since children are such a rare and valuable asset for the affluent). I didn't understand why characters feel pity for families that have 4 children. Does it mean less wealthy people by dumb luck sometimes snatch fertility insects and become a social burden when they start producing large families? This story concept would have been fun to explore and also worked quite well with the university guy named Unel.
I could envision a story where Unel is so hypefixiated with his invention that he doesn't even realize he consumed the fertility insect by accident. From the first 1/3 of the story, I am still unsure what he is supposed to do in the plot. He spends 90% of the time obsessed with his machine and then oops, I forgot! I am married! Wait... I have a wife? Yikes, I feel sorry for Trellia. Having a character that only cares about his own pursuits that he ignores his wife in a society where women don't need to stick with a specific sexual partner could have created a fascinating dynamic.
It is such a bummer how the book handles this relationship dynamic. If women can have any sexual partner and job choice, why would she stay with a man that doesn't pay any attention to her? Is it because they both come from powerful commune families that wish to join forces? Is it because Trellia's family owns Unel's university and he only married her to get a tenure job to pursue his interests? So many possibilities that went unexplored!
Instead of having a character that tries to threaten Unel to pay more attention to her, Trellia is... uhh... What does Trellia do for a living anyways? All we know about her is that she swooshes her hips like a maraca and thinks her husband is so perfect. Is she under some kind of magical spell? Does she just stay at home doing nothing all day except daydream about when he will remember a few weeks from now he is married and visit her? Maybe she just spends her time swaying her hips at home and brush her hair. Quite frankly, I felt very ambivalent about Trellia. She is just... there and does... uh... swoosh her hips.
In fact, it seems like every adult female character in the book swooshes her hips. Are their hips like really, really big? Do women learn belly dancing in school and everyone likes to do this? Is it a tic? Or does the swaying hip movement attract the fertility insects? These things make me scratch my head.
I was pretty invested in the story of the teenage priestess that for no apparent reason was chosen as the oracle and future liason between the Arterians and their worm shaped god Sumattra. She was the only female character that didn't spend her days doing the hip swoosh thing or slobber over a particular male Arterian all day. The idea that she is unwilling to fulfill the priest annointing was quite fascinating and should have been explored more. There are no hints she chose to become an oracle, or the mechanics of why a certain person has to become the oracle in the first place.
In fact, for a planet where fertility is so heavily restricted, I was expecting it to be heavily religious. It would be logical to see people swoon the temple and offer their gratitude she is destined to become the next liason. All we get in the story is how everyone is well... unusually agnostic. It feels very contrary to ancient human civilizations that venerated fertility gods.
At almost 30% of the book, I still have no idea what the story is. It feels the book is taking far too long trying to set the stage for the plot. Is it a marriage story? Murder plot? Political drama? Religious dystopia? Sometimes this is okay for me because epic fantasy takes forever to develop worldbuilding, but I would have wanted the stakes to be offered by now. I have read tons of books that clutch you within the first 20%, and even if you are still discovering new things, you have a hunch where the plot is going. In this book, I feel the story is taking too long and didn't get a vibe about any of the female characters. Nobody seems to be in command of her life and is only blindly following the orders of their male counterparts. While I think there's some interesting worldbuilding concepts in this novel, I am sorry to declare this is a cut for me.
October 19, 2022
A different kind of love story, something new and refreshing and worth the listen. This audiobook is based on an adventurous lady who had all sorts of predicaments but never gave up because she knows what she wants. The book takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster.
October 20, 2023
Disclaimer: Read 30% for SPSFC3 - reviews and/ratings are my opinion only.
I am personally giving this book a cut. Other Judge's opinions may differ. It is still in the running until all our votes are in and our team leader makes our cuts official
"... it looked like two spheres surrounded by a tangle of wires that had been thrown in a bag and shaken around until only a swift cut by a sword could undo the resulting knot." This quote could easily sum up my opinion of what I read so far. I personally felt the writer was trying to expound his conservative opinion on what makes someone born female a woman, with a bit of sci-fi tangled around it. Some descriptors were totally unnecessary - "HEFTY" for a plump woman, "girly" for a young female.
Women were defined by their physical attributes and this took up a fair bit of the start of the book - by 30% i still wasn't exactly sure what the plot was. There were some interesting ideas such as aten which was a form of energy and how a certain type made female Arterians (humanoids on Arter) pregnant. All women are born infertile and it supposedly cost significant amount to acquire an egg. The majority of the first part of the book centres mainly on two characters then close to the 30% mark a number of other characters start appearing. One gets a rough sense of them but I'd like to have been introduced to their stories and POVs a bit earlier which would have encouraged further exploration of this book.
I am personally giving this book a cut. Other Judge's opinions may differ. It is still in the running until all our votes are in and our team leader makes our cuts official
"... it looked like two spheres surrounded by a tangle of wires that had been thrown in a bag and shaken around until only a swift cut by a sword could undo the resulting knot." This quote could easily sum up my opinion of what I read so far. I personally felt the writer was trying to expound his conservative opinion on what makes someone born female a woman, with a bit of sci-fi tangled around it. Some descriptors were totally unnecessary - "HEFTY" for a plump woman, "girly" for a young female.
Women were defined by their physical attributes and this took up a fair bit of the start of the book - by 30% i still wasn't exactly sure what the plot was. There were some interesting ideas such as aten which was a form of energy and how a certain type made female Arterians (humanoids on Arter) pregnant. All women are born infertile and it supposedly cost significant amount to acquire an egg. The majority of the first part of the book centres mainly on two characters then close to the 30% mark a number of other characters start appearing. One gets a rough sense of them but I'd like to have been introduced to their stories and POVs a bit earlier which would have encouraged further exploration of this book.
August 15, 2023
I've had a moment to digest this book and give it a round about number of 3.5-4 ⭐
LONG REVIEW AND SPOILERS INCOMING:
I'm not too sure what I was expecting of this book, since the synopsis told of a woman whose husband disappears the night her son is born and a message of the end of their world, she spends most of her life searching for him and loses herself and her child in the process.
However this "main character" rarely speaks until the second half of the book. Bits and pieces of her discoveries however not much after that.
This is a multi-POV book following quite a few characters.
Unel-a scientist who is borderline obsessed with his project of creating a device where two individuals can share a dream, later named Draumer.
Trellia- (Unels wife*bonded*)our women from the synopsis who pops up randomly in the first half of the book, she's a pretty face who let's her husband disappear for days and thinks the only way she can keep him from constantly running off is to have a baby.
Strypan- Unels father *referred to as a birth parent* who only speaks in a philosophical/riddled manner and expects people to just understand him.
Strapee- a man running for governor who's hellbent on killing their godlike alien creator Sumatta along with its religion it created. He blames the creature for killing his mother during child birth.
Alia (Later on Shenol)- Referred to as Reader is the *priest* of this religion and translates and speaks for the alien creator. They have to take on a genderless titled since Summatta is genderless.
Tanseor- a secret military agent whose goal is to search and kill two male individuals.
The first half of the book follows Unel,Alia,Strapee and Tanseor as they each go about their tasks and lives. Its clear that Strapee becomes a sort of "villain" of this story. Alia receives a message from Sumatta (who speaks in moving it's tentacles and song like sound) that a new Age is coming basically setting up the end of the world. She spends time with Shenol ,who is chosen to become the Reader after, and continuously study their history and Summattas language since its words have numerous different meaning and they have to break down what it could mean. Unel is in his lab doing research with this "assistant" Col (has little to no purpose to the story besides one thing)
In this universe women are infertile and in order for them to have children they have to absorb a life sphere that are created by Sumattas swarm of underlings. (There are spheres of different elements that did different things)
Trellia dolls herself up so that her *bonded* pays attention to her, gets a few days with him but he still has his mind on his project.They have happy fun time.They test out the dream sequence when lightning strikes the building causing the device to fry and puts her into a coma. He founds out she's pregnant and says he will spend more time with her. Fast forward to the end of part one, summatta makes an announcement through Alia about the world coming to a new age when Strapee attacks with bombs and missiles. During this time Trellia is ready to pop and Unel (surprise surprise) is late to the gathering,(her *birth parents* are there as well ,ready to get high and trip out) he shows up but ignores her to talk to Col and like the pushover she is, gives him some time to try out his project right there. The attack happens, he somehow disappears in thin air, Col is in a coma,her father accidentally gets killed when the assassin was supposed to shoot Strypan not him, she gives birth to...
A boy who looks just like Col. Oh and she names him Noal 😂
Part 2 has a time skip to where Noal is older and because Trellia was so ashamed (her words, she tells him later on she was ashamed about him like wow) gives him to Strapee and his bonded Noselar. Strapee is still the bad guy here, he basically used the adoption as a political plan to win favors and is now governor. How this happened is never explained, you never get the pain, and heartache Trellia might have felt giving him up (refer to synopsis). She gets a bit more screentime in part 2 where she is finishing her vanished husbands project in order to find out what happened. She ends up becoming friends with Shenol and they work together and notice some similarities in how spheres,and sumattas words somehow help with the Draumr. Strypan becomes Noals *guardian* in a sense of training him in different forms of combat.
Noal has been tasked to created a type of forcefield to protect their city from other militaries who decided to try and attack, I'm assuming after summattas disappearance. Strapee is an abusing asshole (again surprise) and beats the crap out of his wofe. Noal finds out and beats him up (to balance things out another philosophical talk from strypan).Trellia has strypan keep tabs on her son and later on when strapee tells noal in a fit of rage that he's actually adopted, meets her. They kinda have a connection, he forgives her and they all start working together.
I'm gonna skip a bit here
In the end it turns out that Unel is an old being and is hanging out in the in between of universes. Not just that but strypan is too and Noal is an even older being who suddenly becomes enlightened. After the earth is renewed and people come back (either from hanging out in space and coming back and others in a green goo that turned their skin green) Trellia and Col who comes out of a coma decide to get together and build a house, Noal comes down and tells her that Unel, strypan and himself won't be back and that she has to move on. And she accepts that.....that's it.
All in all the story was good, a lot of information in the first half that is just piled in.
I'm not too sure what the conclusion of this story is, I felt no connection to these characters, saw no true struggle from Trellia. Strypan honestly got on my nerves with the way he talked. The details of the alien and how the draumr worked was interesting but that's about it.
Let me know what you thought of this book, any disagreements?
LONG REVIEW AND SPOILERS INCOMING:
I'm not too sure what I was expecting of this book, since the synopsis told of a woman whose husband disappears the night her son is born and a message of the end of their world, she spends most of her life searching for him and loses herself and her child in the process.
However this "main character" rarely speaks until the second half of the book. Bits and pieces of her discoveries however not much after that.
This is a multi-POV book following quite a few characters.
Unel-a scientist who is borderline obsessed with his project of creating a device where two individuals can share a dream, later named Draumer.
Trellia- (Unels wife*bonded*)our women from the synopsis who pops up randomly in the first half of the book, she's a pretty face who let's her husband disappear for days and thinks the only way she can keep him from constantly running off is to have a baby.
Strypan- Unels father *referred to as a birth parent* who only speaks in a philosophical/riddled manner and expects people to just understand him.
Strapee- a man running for governor who's hellbent on killing their godlike alien creator Sumatta along with its religion it created. He blames the creature for killing his mother during child birth.
Alia (Later on Shenol)- Referred to as Reader is the *priest* of this religion and translates and speaks for the alien creator. They have to take on a genderless titled since Summatta is genderless.
Tanseor- a secret military agent whose goal is to search and kill two male individuals.
The first half of the book follows Unel,Alia,Strapee and Tanseor as they each go about their tasks and lives. Its clear that Strapee becomes a sort of "villain" of this story. Alia receives a message from Sumatta (who speaks in moving it's tentacles and song like sound) that a new Age is coming basically setting up the end of the world. She spends time with Shenol ,who is chosen to become the Reader after, and continuously study their history and Summattas language since its words have numerous different meaning and they have to break down what it could mean. Unel is in his lab doing research with this "assistant" Col (has little to no purpose to the story besides one thing)
In this universe women are infertile and in order for them to have children they have to absorb a life sphere that are created by Sumattas swarm of underlings. (There are spheres of different elements that did different things)
Trellia dolls herself up so that her *bonded* pays attention to her, gets a few days with him but he still has his mind on his project.They have happy fun time.They test out the dream sequence when lightning strikes the building causing the device to fry and puts her into a coma. He founds out she's pregnant and says he will spend more time with her. Fast forward to the end of part one, summatta makes an announcement through Alia about the world coming to a new age when Strapee attacks with bombs and missiles. During this time Trellia is ready to pop and Unel (surprise surprise) is late to the gathering,(her *birth parents* are there as well ,ready to get high and trip out) he shows up but ignores her to talk to Col and like the pushover she is, gives him some time to try out his project right there. The attack happens, he somehow disappears in thin air, Col is in a coma,her father accidentally gets killed when the assassin was supposed to shoot Strypan not him, she gives birth to...
A boy who looks just like Col. Oh and she names him Noal 😂
Part 2 has a time skip to where Noal is older and because Trellia was so ashamed (her words, she tells him later on she was ashamed about him like wow) gives him to Strapee and his bonded Noselar. Strapee is still the bad guy here, he basically used the adoption as a political plan to win favors and is now governor. How this happened is never explained, you never get the pain, and heartache Trellia might have felt giving him up (refer to synopsis). She gets a bit more screentime in part 2 where she is finishing her vanished husbands project in order to find out what happened. She ends up becoming friends with Shenol and they work together and notice some similarities in how spheres,and sumattas words somehow help with the Draumr. Strypan becomes Noals *guardian* in a sense of training him in different forms of combat.
Noal has been tasked to created a type of forcefield to protect their city from other militaries who decided to try and attack, I'm assuming after summattas disappearance. Strapee is an abusing asshole (again surprise) and beats the crap out of his wofe. Noal finds out and beats him up (to balance things out another philosophical talk from strypan).Trellia has strypan keep tabs on her son and later on when strapee tells noal in a fit of rage that he's actually adopted, meets her. They kinda have a connection, he forgives her and they all start working together.
I'm gonna skip a bit here
In the end it turns out that Unel is an old being and is hanging out in the in between of universes. Not just that but strypan is too and Noal is an even older being who suddenly becomes enlightened. After the earth is renewed and people come back (either from hanging out in space and coming back and others in a green goo that turned their skin green) Trellia and Col who comes out of a coma decide to get together and build a house, Noal comes down and tells her that Unel, strypan and himself won't be back and that she has to move on. And she accepts that.....that's it.
All in all the story was good, a lot of information in the first half that is just piled in.
I'm not too sure what the conclusion of this story is, I felt no connection to these characters, saw no true struggle from Trellia. Strypan honestly got on my nerves with the way he talked. The details of the alien and how the draumr worked was interesting but that's about it.
Let me know what you thought of this book, any disagreements?
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September 3, 2023
So creative with characters and fast pace of multiple relationships being revealed! Storyline is immediately grabbing attention as you read because important details are popping in often that make you realize you need to pay attention for those to resurface again!
April 13, 2023
this was a great opening chapter to the Pure Impurity series, it does a great job in being a scifi novel. The characters were strongly written and does a great job in being real people. I enjoyed the way Sylas Seabrook wrote this and look forward to more.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
July 31, 2024
I'm still not entirely sure what the point of this book is. I genuinely think the bones of it, if fleshed out a little more, could make for a compelling story. There were some unique ideas in here. As it is, heavy information felt condensed to just a couple of lines, and the delivery of that information just left me pretty confused over what was going on...
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