The Price of Redemption - (Tides of Magic) by Shawn Carpenter (Paperback)

About the Book

"A debut female-led swashbuckling fantasy following powerful sorceress and sea captain Marquese Enid d'Tancreville as she is forced on the run where she meets a vast cast of characters perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian's beloved Master and Commander series. Despite her powerful magic, Marquese Enid d'Tancreville must flee her homeland to escape death at the hands of the Theocratic Revolution. When a Theocratic warship overtakes the ship bringing her to safety, Enid is spared capture by the timely intervention of the Albion frigate Alarum, under the command of Lt. Rue Nath. The strange circumstances make for an odd alliance, and Enid finds herself replacing Alarum's recently slain sea mage. Now an officer under Nath's command, Enid is thrust into a strange maritime world full of confusing customs, duties, and language. Worse she soon discovers the threat of the revolution is not confined to shore"--

Book Synopsis

A debut swashbuckling fantasy following a powerful sorceress, the Marquese Enid d'Tancreville, as she is forced on the run where she meets a vast cast of characters including a young sea captain who has need of a sea mage. Perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian, Naomi Novik, and Brian McClellan.

Despite her powerful magic, Marquese Enid d'Tancreville must flee her homeland to escape death at the hands of the Theocratic Revolution. When a Theocratic warship overtakes the ship bearing her to safety, Enid is spared capture by the timely intervention of the Albion frigate Alarum, under the commend of Commander Rue Nath.

These circumstances make for an odd alliance, and Enid finds herself replacing the Alarum's recently slain sea mage. Now an officer under Nath's command, Enid is thrust into a strange maritime world full of confusing customs, duties, and language. Worse, as she soon discovers, the threat of revolution is not confined to shore.

Review Quotes

Praise for The Price of Redemption, The Tides of Magic, Book 1

"[Carpenter] managed to capture a bit of that original magic that drives sailors to the sea, and it's a magic that leaps off the page at every turn."--Lightspeed

* "There's plenty to savor in this first book in the "Tides of Magic" trilogy for fans of Patrick O'Brian's "Aubrey/Maturin" novels, readers seeking a new fantasy to fill the void left by the end of Naomi Novik's "Temeraire" series, lovers of?Our Flag Means Death, those looking for a less-cozy take on Rebecca Thorne's?Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, and anyone who'd like to rehash the Napoleonic Wars with a compelling narrative, great characters, swashbuckling derring-do, and epic, heartbreaking betrayals."--Library Journal

"Taking a page from the classic naval novels of C.S. Forrester and Alexander Kent, debut novelist Carpenter opens his Tides of Magic series by tossing a mage and a commander into a series of entertaining nautical escapades in a fantasy setting reminiscent of the French Revolution. Carpenter's off to a promising start."--Publishers Weekly

"A fun, light, and entertaining sea story with magic."--Locus

"One of the things that the Aubrey and Maturin series did extremely well, that is absolutely a part of?The Price of Redemption, is the way that the story takes the reader through the perspective of a previously (land)lubberly point of view character - Enid here and Maturin in the original series - and uses their instruction by beautifully descriptive but still fascinating details to draw the reader into the arcane mysteries of the sea. It's marvelous and riveting and a compulsive page-turner every single league of its way."--Reading Reality