The Olympian Affair
- 625
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list
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Our view
“The Olympian Affair”, the second “Cinder Spires” novel, is a swashbuckling airship adventure that brings Spire Albion to the edge of open war. Several readers say it needs time to gather speed but grips them in its later stretches. Some struggle to tell its many characters apart, and others find the long build-up to the duels unexciting. At over six hundred pages, it rewards readers fond of fencing, intrigue and talking cats.
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About the book
The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war. Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon--one capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires. A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents. It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albion--assuming that it is not already too late.
Reading order · The Cinder Spires
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8.28.2 / 10 - The Olympian AffairThis book
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 74 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 74 | 100% |
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How long is The Olympian Affair?
It has 625 pages — longer than 84% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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