Book review – The Family Trade by Charles Stross

Charles Stross takes a right turn from his more typical Sci-Fi fare with The Family Trade and gets pretty serious with the fantasy stuff. This is book one in The Merchant Princes series and has me hooked for more.

Miriam is the main character and learns a lot about herself the same day she is fired from her job as a journalist at a startup. She plunges down the rabbits hole into a parallel universe that is still in the Medieval Ages. As she goes deeper the hole grabs her and pulls all the way in.

On the other side she learns about her special gift for world walking and her ties into a Clan that rivals the Midici’s. Suddenly attempts on her life begin popping up everywhere and she falls back on her medical and journalist training to stay alive to make it to book two.

Posted: July 2nd, 2009 under Home, reading.
Tags: book, fantasy, fun, read