The Emperor's Edge

The Emperor's Edge is a steampunk fantasy novel finely served with the combination of great ingredients. The story is balanced with a creative and delightful plot and lively characters which keep the reader enthralled from the first page till the last. It has the right mix of optimism, trust, loyalty, courage, surprise, fear, anger and danger along with humour and drama. Amaranthe Lokdon, one of the few female enforcer and loyal to the empire, is investigating the cause of a sudden fire in a building and finds out more than what meets the eye. This doesn't suit her superiors as a result of which she is assigned the difficult task of finding and killing the notorious assassin Sicarius. She fails to kill him and, surprisingly, he spares her life. But Amaranthe soon realises that her troubles have just started. She finds out that a group called Forge is working against the empire and the emperor's life is in danger. The only person she can turn to for help is the assassin Sicarius who agrees to work for her. Amaranthe hires a few more comrades and her ability to talk to people into doing what she wants is what keeps this group working together as a team. Her ability to think of out-of-the-box solutions gets her team out of many tricky situations. Lindsay Buroker is a gifted storyteller and this novel accomplishes the task of engaging the reader throughout. I am looking forward to read the next novels in this amazing series and would recommend it to everyone who loves fantasy books.- Roshani Hingorani

I absolutely adored this book. I loved the nuanced and complex world that was created, I loved each and every character that I met while reading. I couldn't put the book down either. There was never a dull moment! I would most definitely recommend this book to anyone and everyone :)

An absolutely amazing start to the series. This is my second time reading this story and it's just as good as I remember!

The first entry in the first series she ever put out, The Emperor's Edge does an amazing job of setting the world - set in a steampunk world, much similar to ours, typical low-fantasy - which we discover through the delectable protagonist. it also sets off a slow burning relationship and romance with an antagonist of sorts figure which will only come to play later int he books.The characters feel well-lived and different from each other; and the humor is also a plus.An incredible read and, I'd argue, the most definitive of any first book by the author herself; I find that all later works that I've read don't stray much away from the formula and the author has never been able to replicate it to the quality presented here.As per the quality of the paperback itself, it felt rather flimsy compared to what.I expected. But as a paperback from an indie published author, that's par of the course.Highly recommend this series.

J'avais déjà ce livre, et l'ai acheté ici pour en faire cadeau à une amie.Un des livres les plus originaux que j'ai pu lire, un univers unique, entre fantastique, détails modernes et ère tout juste pré-industrielle, avec une petite touche discrète de steampunk.La narration est truffée d'humour, et l'héroïne transcende les habituels clichés pour apporter au lecteur une véritable personne (maniaque, certes, mais oh combien réelle). Çà et là on retrouve quelques schémas bien connus du genre de la fiction bien entendu (que serait-on sans eux ?), mais les livres de Lindsay Buroker se détachent du reste par une atmosphère et une identité propres. J'ai adoré m'y plonger, et m'y replonger. Et je m'y replongerai encore. Si votre niveau en anglais est relativement solide, foncez ! Et s'il ne l'est pas, un bon dictionnaire n'est jamais trop loin ;)Bonne lecture, j'espère !

You can't read just one!I loved it! The characters are wonderful, the plot is riveting, the prose fascinating, the world awe inspiring. Please just try it!