The Chart of Tomorrows
A Gaunt and Bone Novel
Pyr · Print & ebook · July 7, 2015
The poet Persimmon Gaunt and the thief Imago Bone had sought only to retire from adventuring and start a family, but they never reckoned on their baby becoming the chosen vessel of the mystical energies of a distant Eastern land.
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- Who it’s for
- A dangerous book opens routes through time as parents pursue their son.
- Themes
- Family and parent-child conflict, Destiny and personal choice, Time and the past
- Pacing
- Fast
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The poet Persimmon Gaunt and the thief Imago Bone had sought only to retire from adventuring and start a family, but they never reckoned on their baby becoming the chosen vessel of the mystical energies of a distant Eastern land. With their son Innocence hunted by various factions hoping to use him as a tool, they kept him safe at the cost of trapping him in a pocket dimension of accelerated time.
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Now free, the thirteen-year-old Innocence has rejected his parents and his "destiny" and has made dangerous friends in a barbaric Western land of dragon-prowed ships and rugged fjords. Desperately, Gaunt and Bone seek to track him down, along with their companion Snow Pine and her daughter A-Girl-Is-A-Joy, who was once trapped with Innocence too. But as the nomadic Karvaks and their war-balloons strike west, and a troll-king spins his webs, and Joy is herself chosen by the spirit of the very land Innocence has fled to, Gaunt and Bone find themselves at the heart of a vast struggle -- and their own son is emerging from that conflict as a force of evil. To save him and everything they know, they turn to a dangerous magical book, The Chart of Tomorrows, that reveals pathways through time. Upon the treacherous seas of history, Gaunt and Bone must face the darkness in each other’s pasts, in order to rescue their future.
Pathways Through Time
A dangerous book opens routes through time as parents pursue their son.
Come here for
- A magical book revealing pathways through time
- A family search amid dragon-prowed ships and rugged fjords
Expect
- A son rejecting his parents and his destiny
- A struggle that reaches into the parents’ pasts
Where it sits
| Time Travel Fiction | 81% |
|---|---|
| Epic Fantasy | 67% |
| Dragons & Mythic Creatures | 56% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Epic Fantasy
- Urban Fantasy
- Westerns
- Authors
- Chris Willrich
- Publisher
- Pyr
- Published
- July 7, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Family and parent-child conflict · Destiny and personal choice · Time and the past
- Reading lane
- Epic Fantasy