Innocence Lost (Ghostspeaker Chronicles Book 1): Ghostspeaker Chronicles

Patty Jansen

Jan 2014 · Ghostspeaker Chronicles Book 1 · Patty Jansen

About this ebook

As the only child of a successful merchant, Johanna has her wits and a sense for business.

The royal family is in deep trouble: ever since the crown princess died of illness, the king has attempted to educate his son to become king. However, the prince is "not good in the head" and quite unsuited to the task. In his grief for his daughter, the king has run the coffers dry: he hired dubious magicians for even more dubious tasks. Those magicians circle like vultures waiting for the kingdom to fail. The king must get his son on the throne, preferably supported by a smart and well-off wife.

He holds a ball in his son's honour. Johanna has agreed to a dance. But the guests include a number of magicians who are not there for the festivities.

For readers who enjoy writers such as Robin Hobb, Karen Miller, Trudi Canavan, Morgan Rice, Lindsay Buroker and Glenda Larke.

free fantasy, historic fantasy, epic fantasy, magic, medieval, the Netherlands, witch, sorcery, dark fantasy

Ratings and reviews

What a start to an interesting story. I am routing for our heroin. I have had to take off two stars. As much as I would like to continue reading the series, each of the books are at the most less than 200 pages or about 160 pages for about £4 each. What a put off. No book or author is worth that much. Sorry, I do not peddle to greed.

Patty Jensen has a great mind for stories, however, the page length keeps it a book for public school systems. It is even too short for required reading at school.

Return from a woman's perspective, the plot follows Johanna's dreams crash into reality and then into survival. What she chooses to do to survive and for her county to survive shows a great strength of character. I look forward to the next book.

About the author

Patty Jansen lives in Sydney, Australia, where she spends most of her time writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her story This Peaceful State of War placed first in the second quarter of the Writers of the Future contest and was published in their 27th anthology. She has also sold fiction to genre magazines such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Redstone SF and Aurealis.

Her novels (available at ebook venues) include Watcher’s Web (soft SF), The Far Horizon (middle grade SF), Charlotte’s Army (military SF) and Fire & Ice, Dust & Rain and Blood & Tears (Icefire Trilogy) (dark fantasy). Her novel Ambassador was published by Ticonderoga Publications in 2013.