(Who am I kidding? He was my favorite very soon after he was introduced.) He didn’t really seem particularly vicious but he ended up being my favorite character by the end. leader) is supposed to be the cutthroat who loves knives. Perhaps the little detail on her was to make her more mysterious and let your imagination turn her into the girl you’d like to adventure with. We didn’t really get to know Jaya which was a bit disappointing considering she was a main character. But his frustration and nerdiness makes him relatable to the target audience. We all have that friend, are that friend, or have seen that movie. The unappreciated genius lusting over the insanely hot chick who pays him little attention. Alaeron seemed to sit somewhere between comfortably familiar and cliche. The beginning of the book jumps right into action with an alchemist named Alaeron saving a pretty girl, being threatened by an assassin, and then being blackmailed by a crime lord. Yet the Technic League hasn’t forgotten Alaeron’s betrayal, and an assassin armed with alien weaponry is hot on their trail…” In order to keep their heads, Alaeron and Jaya must travel across wide seas and steaming jungles in search of a wrecked flying city and the magical artifacts that can buy their freedom. Now in hiding in a distant city, he’s happy to use his skills creating minor potions and wonders- at least until the back alley rescue of an adventurer named Jaya lands him in trouble with a powerful crime lord. “Once an alchemical researcher with the dark scholars of the Technic League, Alaeron fled their arcane order when his conscience got the better of him, taking with him a few strange devices of unknown functions.

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