Sorrel in Scarlet is
a fantasy novel set in a world where a form of magic works, dragons
rule the land, and monsters exist, and where technology has advanced
to the stage of steam cars and biplanes. Sorrel's land was ravaged by
an apocalyptic war more than a thousand years ago between elves and
lloruk (serpent-folk). Fortunately for everyone alive on the surface
now, both evil, twisted races ceased to exist during that war. One
remnant is the Chasm, a gigantic tear in the fabric of the continent.
It plunges two miles down into a permanent layer of cloud – no one
who ventured down there has returned.
Sorrel is a pilot.
She hates the dragon-lords who are the masters of her land. She has
raided one of them – Wrack. The novel begins with her crashed in a
crimson jungle at the base of the Chasm, blasted out of the sky by
Wrack and stranded down in the depths. There are creatures of
nightmare in the Chasm long vanished from the surface – graalur
(think orcs, and you've got the right idea); rusdrool (don't even
ask); snarqs (two-headed acid-spitting flying lizards)... and lloruk.
The humans in the
depths are in a war with the serpent-folk sorcerers. Sorrel finds
herself caught up in the conflict – and then she finds that her
fate has become inextricably bound with that of Wrack, who is also
trapped down here...
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