Roil

Published Dec. 14, 2011 by Angry Robot.

ISBN:
978-0-85766-184-5
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4 stars (1 review)

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4 stars

Trent Jamieson is a writer of no small talent, one who suffuses his richly imagined worlds with authentic human feeling and - as a result - portrays realistic characters in extraordinary circumstances. Roil is a prodigious work of imagination. The world of Roil has a history as complex as its current social and geographical topography (and on that last point, I could have done with a map to plot the journeys of our protagonists because the place feels that real).

Roil allows Trent to give free reign to his darker imaginings and the physical threat of the roil and its denizen 'roilings' demonstrate that very well. The action is relentless, complex and delivered for the most part at breakneck speed. It's all a fantastic adventure and the ending sets up nicely for book two. The only reason I didn't give Roil five stars was firstly that some of the scenes, …