Six hundred years ago, humanity rose up in revolt against the Aeriels, who were driven from earth and back into their homeland of Vaan after a bloody and glorious war.Eight years ago, Ruban’s home was destroyed and his family murdered by an Aeriel.When a new Aeriel threat looms over Ragah, the capital city of Vandram, Ruban Kinoh must do everything in his power to avenge his family’s past and … family’s past and protect the future of his country.
Which is hard enough without being saddled with a pretty and pompous aristocrat, who seems as useless as he is vain. Faced with a conspiracy that might cost humanity its hard-won freedom, and accompanied by the bejeweled and glitter-clad Ashwin Kwan, Ruban begins his journey into a land where the past and the future intertwine.
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Book Review A Flight of Broken Wings by Nupur Chowdhry
Basic Details:
Book Title: A Flight of Broken Wings
Subtitle: The Aeriel Chronicles Book 1
Author: Nupur Chowdhry
Genre: Fantasy
Part of a series? Yes
Order in series: 1
Best read after earlier books in series? N/A
Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41464412-a-flight-of-broken-wings
Overall score:
I scored this book 5/5
Short Summary of the book:
This book tells the story of Ruban Kinoh, an Aeriel hunter, who lost his father and girlfriend eight years earlier in an attack from an Aeriel. He was adopted by his uncle Subhas and is now considered the best Aeriel hunter in the country. In this book, he has to fight the Aeriels to save the human race and is tasked to look after a Zainian aristocrat, Ashwin Kwan, who has been sent as an emissary from the Zainians. In reality he is a Aeriel prince by the name of Shwaan, sent by his sister the Aeriel queen Zafaa. They want to avoid their mother gaining access to an enhanced Sif blade formula with which she aims to invade Vaan and kill her daughter.
It is an exciting book I enjoyed a lot and I look forward to reading more of this author’s work.
What I liked about the book:
I particularly liked the fact that Prince Shwaan hid behind the exterior of a rather pompous and, in a way, stupid aristocrat to allow him to work with the human race to stop his mother Tauheen to bring her evil plan to fruition. An obvious case of ‘don’t judge the book by its cover’ where he was concerned.
What I didn’t like about the book:
I enjoyed the entire book and found it difficult to put it down.
My favourite bits in the book:
I loved where Ruban found out not all Aeriels were bad.
My least favourite bits in the book:
I didn’t like it when the book finished as I wanted to know what would become of the main characters in this book. I especially wonder whether Ruban and Ashwin, aka Prince Shwaan, will be able to bring peace between Aeriels and humans.
Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?
I understand from the subtitle ‘book 1’ that there are more books in the planning.
What books could this be compared to and why?
This book reminded me of books I’ve read about angels and humanity and I wonder if Aeriels are in anyway related to angels.
Recommendation:
In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:
Children No
Young Adult Yes
Adult Yes
If you like Fantasy and supernatural this book is the book for you.
I look forward to reading more books by this author and can warmly recommend this book.
Book Description by Author:
Six hundred years ago, humanity rose up in revolt against the Aeriels, who were driven from earth and back into their homeland of Vaan after a bloody and glorious war.
Eight years ago, Ruban’s home was destroyed and his family murdered by an Aeriel.
When a new Aeriel threat looms over Ragah, the capital city of Vandram, Ruban Kinoh must do everything in his power to avenge his family’s past and protect the future of his country.
Which is hard enough without being saddled with a pretty and pompous aristocrat, who seems as useless as he is vain. Faced with a conspiracy that might cost humanity its hard-won freedom, and accompanied by the bejewelled and glitter-clad Ashwin Kwan, Ruban begins his journey into a land where the past and the future intertwine.
About the Author:
Born in Kolkata, India
April 08
Website: http://nupurink.blogspot.com/
Genre: Humor and Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
URL https://www.goodreads.com/Nupur_88
Nupur Chowdhury is the author of A Flight of Broken Wings and The Classroom Effect. Apart from novels, she enjoys writing poetry and the occasional short story. She was four when she started writing. Now, some 20 years later, it’s more an addiction than a hobby.
Nupur likes coffee, street food, fanfiction, and sleep. She dislikes yoghurt, slow internet, unnecessary cliffhangers, and being woken up in the morning.
You can find her on Facebook, Wattpad, Goodreads, and Amazon. And if you can’t, it’s probably because she’s busy sleeping.
A Flight Of Broken Wings by Nupur Chowdhury is the first book in the Aeriel Chronicles series.
This was a good read with some colourful and interesting characters. I found the flow to be a little off though. It started off slow then went really fast then dragged on for a little bit. I feel as though the author was more intent on the world building rather than easiness of reading which is not necessarily a bad thing. I would have liked there to be less technical words and at times it felt like I had to consult a dictionary before I carried on.
This being said once I continued with it I found that I quite enjoyed it. It had a few feelings of fantasy along with some sci-fi. It’s something a little bit different and won’t be to everyone’s tastes but if you decide to give it a go for a few chapters you may find that you are completely immersed with it.
A really good read.
Let me start by saying that I really liked this book and I am so thankful that Nupur reached out to me to see if I would like to read her book. Since I really liked it as much as I did and it is only available as an ebook I will leave links below. No, I was not asked to do this but the book is really good and I am all about supporting authors.
I loved the setting and the intertwining of mythology/folklore. Now I am only believing that it has some mythology and folklore in it because I fail at googling apparently. But I know that somewhere I have read something somewhere regarding flying being made of energy. I really do like to read about other cultures and their myths and legends so I am sure I am not just making it up. Anyway back to the book.
I loved how the two main characters balanced out each other. I did not feel at any point that one dominated the story more than the other, which was amazing since both of these guys had such strong personalities. I have to say that Ashwin was my favorite I really liked how sarcastic he was and how he bent the perceptions of his kind. Maybe its just me looking into it a little too much but Aeriels are explained to have very definitive traits and he has those traits, yes but he also seems to be more. Sorry for that vagueness but that cuts very close to spoilers.
The only thing I had trouble with was one character was undercover so he had two names. Now the problem I had was one part of the story they just switched back and forth and I had to stop and go back and figure out what I was missing. Now there was only one instance of this for me in the story and now I wish I would have marked it down.
The best part for me is that it wraps up so nicely I do not need to wait for the next book to feel satisfied. I know it may be silly but that always makes me feel that if I continue on it is my choice and the author isn’t making me see what happens next and I would definitely pick up the next book.
This is listed as the first book in The Aeriel Chronicles on Goodreads and I really hope we get some more books in this world. I really enjoyed it and would read them if she writes them.