Desdemona and the Deep
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Award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in luxurious, dizzying fantasy In Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the surface, her world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle rich indulge themselves in unheard-of luxury. Below are goblins, mysterious kingdoms, and an entirely different hierarchy. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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1 released bookDark Breakers is a 4-book series first released in 2014 with contributions by C.S.E. Cooney and C. S. E. Cooney.
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I have a thing where I read the first few pages of all the books I get from the library at a time to get a sense for which one calls to be read next. Sometimes I feel like the book is not to my liking. So to give it another chance before discarding, I jump to the end to read the last chapter.
So glad I did in this case because I loved the ending of this book and so knew I had to start over at the beginning. I still struggled with the opening chapter but now had some context for the characters which helped.
From there I finished the book within a day. Such wonderful world building and such a sense of belonging for those of us who feel at times out of place in this world of ours.
TL:DR If the opening does not pull you in, read on a bit more to give it a bit more line to reel you in.
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