Review: empowered female in a male dominated alternative world
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
An empowered female heroine in alternative male dominated world.  I do not know how much of the true oppression of woman the novel correctly captured; but, the reader should definitely empathize with the heroines struggles to get the male dominated aristocrats to take her seriously .  The other characters are surprisingly grey, neither all evil not all good.  The revolutionary Jack has good intentions but his means are appalling.  Yet, Sir Thomas the current Royal Sorcerer who tries to protect the status quo at all costs, falls to using even more reprehensible means.  A blatant disregard for the good of the common people, the disenfranchised poor is demonstrated by the elite aristocrats.  But the revolution seems to have almost as must disregard for the life's of the police,and common people caught up in the street violence. Our heroine attempts to walk a middle rod and comes across as the most sympathetic of the characters which the reader cheers on in her struggles for what seems right.