Peredis A Prince at War by C.J. Neylon

Following visions of his father's death, a prince of divided lineage embarks on a perilous journey of self-discovery, chasing his destiny into a dangerous world of warring factions and injustice.

Set in the early years of the twenty-second century against a background of conflict between the Rational and Scientific Party, the new masters of a tyrannical Europus, and the Visionaries, an assembly of smaller armies fighting for the independence that was wrested from their nations some years before, Seven Songs For A Throne combines high fantasy and science fiction into a series filled with action, intrigue and captivating characters.

Review

‘Peredis’ is a short read that I flew through and I would have read a much longer book very easily! I think that I am used to sprawling tomes of fantasy that I was wanting the same for this one as I felt it was crying out to be elaborated on. The world is part old style fantasy with medieval hints whilst having magical elements in a separate realm, then there is also the modern with computer stimulation worlds. It was a unique combination which I haven’t seen before. Hopefully, in the rest of the series this will be explained and explored in much more detail as it intrigued and I wanted to know so much more about it.

The characters were engaging and revolved around the young Peredis, who is half human and half Eremorean and straddles all of the different worlds. He human father was a rebel leader and his Eremorean mother was royalty. When both his parents die he returns to Eremorea to be raised by his grandfather. Now he is older he is involved with helping the rebels and is exposed to the more science fiction elements of the world.

This is a solid start to the series and I will be looking out for the further books.