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The Glasswrights Series: The Glasswrights' Apprentice, The Glasswrights' Progress, The Glasswrights' Journeyman, The Glasswrights' Test, and The Glasswrights' Master

di Mindy L. Klasky

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All five novels of an acclaimed fantasy series "full of entertaining twists and turns" (San Francisco Chronicle). Rani Trader is born a merchant in the kingdom of Morenia, where the caste you're born into determines the path your life will take. After she gets an apprenticeship at the Glasswrights' Guild, she discovers secrets beyond her rank, and soon her life will never be the same.   The Glasswrights' Apprentice: Rani Trader has achieved the high honor of apprenticing in the prestigious Glasswrights' Guild. But everything goes wrong when she witnesses the murder of the Crown Prince and is accused of being the killer.   The Glasswrights' Progress: Rani survived the destruction of her family, her Glasswrights' Guild, and everything else she held dear. She has begun to settle into her new life, living in the palace of Morenia's new king, but then she's kidnapped and taken to distant Amanthia where she discovers a plot against her ruler.   The Glasswrights' Journeyman: Rani's beloved homeland of Morenia has been destroyed by fire. The only hope for rebuilding is for King Halaravilli to marry a wealthy princess from Liantine, so Rani must set aside her own feelings.   The Glasswrights' Test: Rani has finally been summoned by her exiled Glasswrights' Guild to test for the rank of master, something she has wanted for years. She journeys to Brianta for the test and, cut off from all she cherishes, soon realizes that the lives of her loved ones hang in the balance.   The Glasswrights' Master: Rani escaped Morenia just as enemy armies invaded. Now encamped in the kingdom of Sarmonia, she must make the hardest bargain of her life: negotiating safety for herself, her beloved king, and his heir, even as she struggles to control mystical powers that rise within her.    … (altro)
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Meh. Mary Sue saves the day in a number of increasingly improbable ways, and it all ends happily ever after, very much as you'd expect from the middle of the 1st book onwards. It's a shame because most of the 1st book is really quite good, but the story never quite recaptures that. Instead it's a fast flowing, detail and plausibility lite, stampede from one event to the next. Little to no world building, characterisation or depth.

Ranita is an apprentice in a glassmaker's guild. There's quite a rigid caste system, and her parents have paid a lot of money from their merchant background for their daughter to succeed. However Ranita throws it all away when she appears to get the crown prince murdered right during his coronation ceremony. She naturally flees, and as she encounters an unexpected ally, things don't look quite as dismal as they could have been.

The story to here - halfway through the first book - is superb. Unfortunately Ranita then goes on to betray various allies just in time to meet the next one, and we cycle through at least three different mysterious societies that she gets involved with, promoted and destroys, and it all goes repeatedly downhill until the not at all surprising conclusion.

I suspect this will be devoured by the appropriate YA audience. But that's not me. ( )
  reading_fox | Aug 11, 2017 |
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All five novels of an acclaimed fantasy series "full of entertaining twists and turns" (San Francisco Chronicle). Rani Trader is born a merchant in the kingdom of Morenia, where the caste you're born into determines the path your life will take. After she gets an apprenticeship at the Glasswrights' Guild, she discovers secrets beyond her rank, and soon her life will never be the same.   The Glasswrights' Apprentice: Rani Trader has achieved the high honor of apprenticing in the prestigious Glasswrights' Guild. But everything goes wrong when she witnesses the murder of the Crown Prince and is accused of being the killer.   The Glasswrights' Progress: Rani survived the destruction of her family, her Glasswrights' Guild, and everything else she held dear. She has begun to settle into her new life, living in the palace of Morenia's new king, but then she's kidnapped and taken to distant Amanthia where she discovers a plot against her ruler.   The Glasswrights' Journeyman: Rani's beloved homeland of Morenia has been destroyed by fire. The only hope for rebuilding is for King Halaravilli to marry a wealthy princess from Liantine, so Rani must set aside her own feelings.   The Glasswrights' Test: Rani has finally been summoned by her exiled Glasswrights' Guild to test for the rank of master, something she has wanted for years. She journeys to Brianta for the test and, cut off from all she cherishes, soon realizes that the lives of her loved ones hang in the balance.   The Glasswrights' Master: Rani escaped Morenia just as enemy armies invaded. Now encamped in the kingdom of Sarmonia, she must make the hardest bargain of her life: negotiating safety for herself, her beloved king, and his heir, even as she struggles to control mystical powers that rise within her.    

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