The Remnant, Charlie Fletcher
The Remnant, Charlie Fletcher
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The Remnant

Author: Charlie Fletcher

Narrator: Charlie Fletcher

Unabridged: 12 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 03/14/2017

Synopsis

"Exciting, exhilaring, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized." -- M. R. Carey

The Oversight of London has been sworn for millennia to prevent the natural and the supernatural worlds from preying on each other.

Now, at its lowest ebb, with its headquarters destroyed and its last members scattered far and wide, this secret society will battle for survival and face the harshest foe it has ever met: itself.

About Charlie Fletcher

Charlie Fletcher is a screenwriter and children's author living in Edinburgh. His Stoneheart trilogy has been translated into a dozen languages and the film rights have been sold to Paramount. The first volume, Stoneheart, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase award and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. His stand-alone novel for children, Far Rockaway, was published last year to great critical acclaim and has been longlisted for the Carnegie prize. He can be found on Twitter at @CharlieFletch_r.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on September 29, 2017

Book 1: 3* Book 2: 3.5* Book 3: 3.5* A decent ending to a decent series. I'm somewhat tainted at the end because the series was getting better and better but the ending, in several different place, as it started to build into a crescendo instead fizzled out. I'm not the biggest UF fan so others will pr......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on April 12, 2017

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this series this book was good but it left a few things unsaid at the end which am not happy about as this is the last book so what happened to Mr D? he went into the mirrors and his hand was severed and what happens to kat and her 2 companions yes they get out of t......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on December 02, 2017

Loved this series, felt there were slightly too many characters and strands which it got bogged down in places (the American but specifically) but otherwise excellent combination of fantasy and Victorian melodrama.......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on April 02, 2019

Great Victorian fantasy trilogy. Fletcher is a fine writer. The world building is succinct and clever; I cared about the characters enough to suffer through quite a few heart-wrenching moments; the language is true to its setting and period. That said, I do feel ambivalent about the ending. Most thre......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on June 05, 2017

When I started reading this book I didn't realize that it was the 3rd book in a trilogy. So, I stopped reading it and started the first book. I forced myself to finish the first book, but I can't say that I liked either one. The writing seemed very labored, and I just couldn't build a connection wit......more

Quotes

"[Fletcher] drives this impressive array of plot strands along with panache and dexterity... so rich is the characterization and surprising the narrative."—Kirkus (starred review)

"Those already familiar with this world will be delighted, and newcomers will eagerly lose themselves in this utterly imaginative fantasy."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Paradox

"A thoughtfully dense, fully realized construct.... Best of all, you never know where it's going next. As good as or better than the opener. Grab."—Kirkus on The Paradox

"A teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized. This feels like the start of something amazing."—M. R. Carey on The Oversight

"Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step."—Frances Hardinge on The Oversight

"I couldn't stop reading... It really is a richly atmospheric and intensely readable slice of Victoriana: gothic as all get out, with a splendidly eerie sense of the way the unearthly lies cheek-by-jowl with the mundane. Cheerable goodies, grotesque baddies: the whole book is adventurous and flavorsome and gripping. I really enjoyed it."—Adam Roberts on The Overight

"Utterly enthralling: Charles Dickens meets Susanna Clarke."—Lou Morgan on The Oversight

"I'll certainly be reading the next one."—Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing.net on The Oversight

"It's oh so moreish a morsel. I'd read a prequel this evening, a sequel as soon as."—Niall Alexander, Tor.com on The Oversight

"A trilogy worth sinking your teeth into."—SciFi Now on The Oversight

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