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Orphans of Chaos | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: EBooks
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 31271
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B001AN4WSM
Publication Date: June 28, 1905
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Product Description
In the first installment of the Chronicles of Chaos series, common associations of high school with prison prove spectacularly well founded. The five teen protagonists are hostages in a British boarding school run by pagan gods. Sustaining themes of lost identity from Wright's respected Golden Age trilogy and heavily borrowing from the work of Roger Zelazny, the narrative charts the teens' discovery of their true identities--they're shape-shifters who hail from Chaos--then pits their budding powers against school authorities who have proceeded from acting in loco parentis to being ominous and occasionally lascivious oppressors. Phaethusa, who goes by Amelia after her aviatrix role model, narrates the rich and frequently comic intrigue, which takes full advantage of the alluring juxtapositions that arise when the soul of a "montrosity from beyond the edge of space and time" is trapped in a nubile teen's heaving breast. Mythological references and discursions on the nature of reality may prove substantial barriers for some; Wright's growing fandom will revel in his overlapping frames of reference
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Worthwile! August 31, 2008
This was definately a novel worth reading. I look forward to gettibg my hands on the next installment. Mr. Wright has a way with words that i found delighful, though I did have to stop and look a few of them up.
Interesting premise but... August 10, 2008
I love the premise but I'm not so sure about the execution. The writer never really engaged me, other than some occasional flashes. I liked the book enough to finish it, but nowhere near enough to go out and buy the next in the series. The main characters have a very focused outlook (one's the science type, one's metaphysical, etc)and the author does an excellent job of adapting his writing for each. I felt out of my depth with some of the dialogue from the science type, and there was so much of it that I was often tempted to skip it completely, but who knows what I would have missed if I had. In the end, it's a toss up. I think it's worth it to give the author a shot, but for me it wasn't worth it to keep on with the series.
 Well Written but Disappointing June 12, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
On the one hand, I found the author's writing style to be very mature and easy to read. The story was narrated by the main character, a teenage girl, and she lent a very charming voice to the novel.
On the other hand, every character was one-dimensional, there was no character development or maturity, the plot didn't develop much (in 300-some pages!), and the almost constant dominant/submissive sexual play with our youthful heroine was both annoying and off-putting.
The cast of characters was another disappointment. It began as a small, intimate group of friends, which I rather liked, but then quite suddenly grew into a huge gaggle of oddballs with multiple names, intertwining relationships, and even flatter personalities than our main characters.
The magic system was an interesting concept -- It used hyperspace physics as a form of magic -- but I don't feel that it worked very well in practice. The lengthy explanations in the middle of the action sequences were a little annoying. It was also silly because the physics babble was really just a thin veneer for whatever struck the author's fancy.
The ending was abrupt and unresolved, but I wouldn't exactly call it a cliffhanger. Generally a cliffhanger leaves you in suspense, excited to read on. This book just left me shrugging and thinking, "Well... that went absolutely nowhere."
So there you have it. This review is one part praise and four parts criticism, and that seems like just the right ratio for this book. Not without its charm, but I certainly won't be reading the rest of the series.
Your mileage may vary.
 Good Story, wish the rest were available for Kindle. June 8, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the descriptions of extra dimensions abilities of the characters.
Got this book for $0.00, I guess as a promotion from the publisher. I would guess the idea would be to promote the whole series. But, only the first book in the series is available for the Kindle, so I don't quite see the point.
It's especially frustrating since the story kind of leaves you hanging.
Great story -- where's the next kindle book? June 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am an avid fantasy/sci-fi reader, and stumbled across this one because I was desperate for something new to read. It turned out to be worth the time.
There are plenty of reviews of this story under the actual bindings (!Orphans of Chaos) , so I won't repeat them here.
The problem is that it was just released on Kindle (June 2008), but there doesn't appear to be the next one yet
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