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In Slyvo, one child in a hundred is born with an affinity: a magical link to an element, able to shape and use it as they choose. If they are lucky they will become a master craftsman, able to command high prices; if they are unlucky, the factories always demand new wielders, kept as slaves and worked to exhaustion.Talis and Almoris are free wielders, dedicating their lives to helping wielders leave the country for better lives abroad. But not everyone believes in their mission, and not everyone can be trusted - when Almoris takes in a runaway, they find themselves pulled into a mission that puts their lives in danger and threatens both their loyalties and their love.Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

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86 pages
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English
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15 Aug. 2020
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12.85 x 0.51 x 19.84 cm
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1910462306
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978-1910462300
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fox Spirit Books (15 Aug. 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 86 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1910462306
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1910462300
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.85 x 0.51 x 19.84 cm

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Shona Kinsella is a fantasy author who lives near the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, in the west of Scotland. She is joint editor of the British Fantasy Society's publication BFS Horizons and regularly reviews books for the Society. Shona has a degree in Law from the University of Strathclyde where she learned a lot about narrative structure; everyone loves a story.

Shona enjoys spending time outdoors and much of her writing is inspired by the environment that she lives in, at the edge of Scotland’s first national park. When she is not writing, she enjoys geocaching with her husband and children and reading as many books as she can get her hands on.

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A unique and wonderfully written novella.

An easy story to follow of an underground rebellion doing their best to save outlaw magic users from an enslaving and powerful aristocracy class, Kinsella makes a number of choices to set her work apart.

First of all, the characters we follow are all insectoid, bringing to mind Ian Irvine's Well Of Souls or Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadow's of the Apt with the thoughtful and delightful descriptions, right down the digits on their four hands.

Secondly, Kinsella boils the story down to a tale about love and compassion, which is not only heartwarming but something most readers will understand in a world of magic and humanoid insects.

Thirdly, all the characters are non-binary. Kinsella really commits to this, and does a wonderful job of introducing her world and this point, guiding the reader with clarity and confidence. Anyone who says writing or reading non-binary characters is difficult need to read The Flame and the Flood. It's a terrific example of how it should be done.

Overall, a wonderful story of hope and love in a hopeless and hateful situation, beautifully written.

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This is the second novella from the British Fantasy Awards novella shortlist that I have read, after Stark Holborn's "Triggernometry". Interestingly they have a similar central theme: the resistance of an oppressed group to their oppressors. "Triggernometry" follows the Western tropes, "The Flame and the Flood" is more traditional fantasy.

It is the story of Talis, Almoris, and Batanel. They are wielders in a place called Slyvo. Wielders are, basically, magicians and in Slyvo they are enslaved. Talis, Almoris, and Batanel are a resistance. They help smuggle out wielders to safer countries. Wielders seem to have an affinity to a particular element: water, wood, flame, iron or brass for example.

The Slyvo - I'll use that as a species name as I might have missed their proper name - are intelligent insects without a fixed gender. The book uses "ze" and "hir" as pronouns, which took me a page or two to get used to but is easier enough to cope with after that.

The story begins when Talis is in the market and ze stumbles across a wielder who is "leaking", which means their power is having an effect on the materials around them without their conscious control. But also in the market is Vinhardt, a slaver: "There was no mistaking the hoarse voice of one of the worst slavers in Cortill." The leaky wielder is spotted by Vinhardt but flees. Ze ends up stumbling upon the resistance. Zir name is Juki.

The story then tells of their attempts to smuggle Juki out of Cortill. Obviously, it does not go smoothly, because that would be a little dull. I ended up thinking of this as a World War Two escape movie but with intelligent insects.

I enjoyed it. The story is well-paced, building up the tension towards the ending. There's some interesting world-building that is dropped in without too much in the way of info-dumping. I don't know much about Shona Kinsella's other work. I don't know if this is part of a bigger series of adventures or a world that ze is already writing in but, once I've written this review I'll go and find out.

Its themes are pretty contemporary: oppression, exploitation, and resistance. But then when are those three things not contemporary. Very enjoyable.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 August 2021

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Loved the characters good wee plot with a twist in tbe tail

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