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Ship of Smoke and Steel The Wells of Sorcery Trilogy Book 1 eBook Django Wexler

Django Wexler's debut into the YA genre is a thrilling and engaging roller coaster ride. Let me say first that thought this is a YA novel it does deal with topics of rape and sexual activities but nothing to extreme.

I personally have really nothing bad to say about this first entry in the Wells of Sorcery trilogy. It was everything I expect from Django Wexler. It has a very unique magic system called Wells. What I loved about this magic system was that it didn't focus on elements, not that there is anything wrong with that but it's what we have come to expect. Some of the Wells included Combat, Force, Perception, Shadows, etc. You also aren't limited to just one Well access but it's very rare to have access to two. There is a lot more detail to this magic system and it's something I want readers to read and digest it for themselves.

The story is action, action, action. There was never ever a dull moment in this high octane story. This is a Ghost Ship Heist full of mystery and intrigue. I am so into a well plotted Heist and that was this.

Django Wexler created and crafted a colorful cast of characters. Isoka is a powerful and confident protagonist and I was rooting for her every flip of the page. Isoka just joined my ranks of favorites. We also have some wonderful side characters. Meroe, Jack, and Thora are wonderful. They are quite a few others. We also have LGBTQ representation throughout this book from F/F to M/M.

This is all I have to say about this first entry into the Wells of Sorcery Trilogy. Congratulations Django Wexler on your debut into the YA genre. The only other thing I could say is how much I am going to hate the wait for book two!!!!!


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Ship of Smoke and Steel The Wells of Sorcery Trilogy Book 1 eBook Django Wexler Reviews

Ship of Smoke and Steel is a phenomenal Fantasy/YA hybrid, and one of my favorite new series in a while.

When Isoka, gang enforcer of the Sixteenth Ward, is caught by the Empire for being a mage adept, she is tasked with stealing a ghost shop named the Soliton in order to save herself and her sister. On board the ship, which no one has ever returned from, nothing is as it seems and danger is everywhere.

For me, this mix of story, world building, mystery and character development was near perfect, always hooking me in to the story and giving me the ‘one more chapter’ impulse. On top of that, I really think the world of Soliton could be easily made in to a great ARPG video game ala Monster Hunter and it’s ilk. The detail and description is so vivid throughout the story that I can already picture exactly how something like that would play and it’d be a blast.

I loved the world of Soliton, it’s sheer size and the mystery of its inner workings was a constant drive to keep reading, and the resolution to a lot of the questions raised were mostly all enjoyable, but at the very least understandable. I also loved the crabs and monsters that swarmed the various levels of Soliton, each one being crazier and deadlier than the last. I especially loved the methods Isoka and her gang had to come up with to dispatch said monsters. The action in this book is well thought out and very entertaining to read. Basically, it’s pretty much everything I’d want.

Every character is fantastic. From our protagonist, Isoka, to her friends and even her on-ship nemesis, The Butcher. They’re all so well written, different, diverse and plain fun. I was genuinely invested in every single character the story presented. The fact that every character had their own goals and agency really helped suck me in to the story and the world.

All in all, an outstanding start to a series I couldn’t be more excited about now. It has everything you could want - great characters, deep world building, awesome monster slaying and constant mystery. The ending wraps up most everything, but also very much sets up the next book(s) in this series. I already can’t wait for book 2. Five stars.
(This review is cross-posted on my Goodreads account.)

Lordy, what a ride. This book is outside of my usual genre, but I have been discussing magic systems with my son and liked the cover and premise of this story, so I tried it.

I liked it quite a lot. The MC is terrificly done. Sidebar I don’t understand when reviewers say they didn’t like a book because the MC was not a nice person. Why should all MCs be nice people? The point is that she develops in the course of the story and this is nicely done. Yeah she’s unfeeling and brutal - so? That is the point of her character. She has had an extremely horrific upbringing and protecting her sister was the only goal for this first part of her life.

The characters were all well-drawn. Jack was an especially compelling character to me. Meroe was very good and I loved her determination to reach “The Moron.”

The magic system was logical and I liked the way the system was explained subtly. It’s a suitably “hard” system and there were no instances (that I caught) in which someone suddenly has inexplicable abilities. The concept of “Wells” and the variations on how powerfully someone can access a well held the story together with great logic. I liked that the Wells did not follow some ho-hum heard-it-all-before pattern; i.e. Well of Air! Well of Earth! Well of Fire... My only qualm, if I have one, about the use of magic might be that, in the climax of the story, so few people on a ship full of mage-born, seem to have adept command of one or multiple Wells. Sometimes this takes on a Hero-shines-too-brightly feel. Oh! It also seemed strange to me that Well of Ghul should be so spurned. It’s clearly useful and the MC claims to have sought ought a ghulwitch in order to never have consequences from all the sex she would be having. The abomination of being Ghul adept continued to ring false for me throughout; it felt like the author was saying, “Don’t forget! Being Ghul is VERY, VERY BAD!”

The word craft was terrific, I thought, but I do think we could surely come up with an ocassional alternative word for “rot” and “rut.” I had other problems with “rut,” though, which I’ll outline in a minute. I did not particularly like generalizing “crabs” to mean monsters. It made it harder to picture the beasts and I could only think of crabs and in one instance, a hammerhead shark.

The world building was good, though I sometimes had my doubts about a ship of the size described. Sometimes all the talk about pillars and towers and bridges with rusted-out gashes just blurred in my head into a Star-Wars-ish pile of metalics. I could picture the grey energy, though. I thought that element was well done.

So, here we go; the one part that bugged me and I could not get behind was the sexuality and the emphasis on variant sexual expression. Call me a prude, but I thought it did nothing for the story and felt publisher-forced. To me this part makes this not YA, except maybe for the oldest teens. I would otherwise have shared this story with my 14yo, but not with all the sexuality.

I liked that the story was not completely resolved, yet it didn’t end with a horrible cliff-hanger, either. I really hate those. I am eager to read the sequel.

One thing I wished had been present I wish Isoko would have determined to keep track of time in the beginning - say, she nicks a staff every day or something. This would help the reader feel the time pressure and it would also be a way to keep revisiting the original purpose of the quest, which is a point that easily leaves the reader’s mind while other plot points go on.

All in all, this book is a yes for me, though not for the younger readers of YA.
Django Wexler's debut into the YA genre is a thrilling and engaging roller coaster ride. Let me say first that thought this is a YA novel it does deal with topics of rape and sexual activities but nothing to extreme.

I personally have really nothing bad to say about this first entry in the Wells of Sorcery trilogy. It was everything I expect from Django Wexler. It has a very unique magic system called Wells. What I loved about this magic system was that it didn't focus on elements, not that there is anything wrong with that but it's what we have come to expect. Some of the Wells included Combat, Force, Perception, Shadows, etc. You also aren't limited to just one Well access but it's very rare to have access to two. There is a lot more detail to this magic system and it's something I want readers to read and digest it for themselves.

The story is action, action, action. There was never ever a dull moment in this high octane story. This is a Ghost Ship Heist full of mystery and intrigue. I am so into a well plotted Heist and that was this.

Django Wexler created and crafted a colorful cast of characters. Isoka is a powerful and confident protagonist and I was rooting for her every flip of the page. Isoka just joined my ranks of favorites. We also have some wonderful side characters. Meroe, Jack, and Thora are wonderful. They are quite a few others. We also have LGBTQ representation throughout this book from F/F to M/M.

This is all I have to say about this first entry into the Wells of Sorcery Trilogy. Congratulations Django Wexler on your debut into the YA genre. The only other thing I could say is how much I am going to hate the wait for book two!!!!!