An ancient machine holds the secrets of a distant world’s past for two intimate strangers in the latest romantic fantasy adventure by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg.
Pell is an engineer and digger by trade—unearthing and repairing the fascinating artifacts left behind by the mysterious Ancients who once inhabited the sunbaked planet of Tampere. She’ll do anything to help the people of her village survive and to better understand the secrets of what came before.
Heartwood and Moseus are keepers of a forbidding tower near the village of Emgarden. Inside are the remnants of complex machines the likes of which Pell has never seen. Considering her affinity for Ancient tech, the keepers know Pell is their only hope of putting the pieces of these metal puzzles together and getting them running. The tower’s other riddle is Heartwood himself. He is an enigma, distant yet protective, to whom Pell is inexplicably drawn.
Pell’s restoration of this broken behemoth soon brings disturbing visions—and the discovery that her relationship to it could finally reveal the origins of the towers’ strange keepers and the unfathomable reason the truth has been hidden from her.
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It was an interesting book. The first half of the book was slow, and I couldn't grip where the book was going but all the good stuff was in the last 50%.
Heartwood and Moseus need help so they asked Pell, an engineer to help put a machine back together.
The author does a brillant job of building this elaborate story, filling in the sights and smells in such a rich and entertaining way.
I always find that sci-fi books do really well as audios and the narrator did a brillaint job of weaving the story into a bueatidul narrative.
The last part of the book is where all the magic happens. The first part is basically Pell figuring out the machines and the two men living in the tower.
I was really entertained by the book as a whole.
4 stars
