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    Lost Puzzler: The Tarakan Chronicles

    By Eyal Kless

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    A brilliantly written, page-turning, post-dystopian debut from Eyal Kless, about a society hoping to salvage the technology of a lost generation, a mysterious missing boy who can open doors no one else can, and a scribe who must piece together the past to determine humanity’s future.

    More than a hundred years have passed since the Catastrophe brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Those who survived are changed. The Wildeners have reverted to the old ways—but with new Gods—while others place their faith in the technology that once powered their lost civilization.

    In the mysterious City of Towers, the center of the destroyed Tarakan empire, a lowly scribe of the Guild of Historians is charged with a dangerous assignment. He must venture into the wilds beyond the glass and steel towers to discover the fate of a child who mysteriously disappeared more than a decade before. Born of a rare breed of marked people, the child, Rafik—known as “The Key”—was one of a special few with the power to restore this lost civilization to glory once again.

    In a world riven by fear and violence, where tattooed mutants, manic truckers, warring guilds and greedy mercenaries battle for survival, this one boy may have singlehandedly destroyed humanity’s only chance for salvation—unless the scribe can figure out what happened to him.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 8, 2019
    ISBN9780062792440
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    Eyal Kless

    Eyal Kless is a classical violinist who enjoys an international career both as a performer and a teacher. Born in Israel, Eyal has travelled the world extensively, living several years in Dublin, London, Manchester, and Vienna, before returning to Tel Aviv. His first novel, Rocca's Violin, was published in Hebrew in 2008 by Korim Publishers. Eyal currently teaches violin in the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University, and performs with the Israel Haydn String Quartet, which he founded.

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    • 2/5
      This one was an odd mix. In a post apocalyptic world (pretty clearly ours) the action of the story is about getting a child with an uncommon talent to the site of the center of the fallen civilization. It was well written in terms of narrative and action but the story's unclear about why they had to do this and what happened to the earlier society and even who they were.

      Several of the GR reviews call this a YA book, but it doesn't read like one to me. Though the central character is a young teen boy, he's pretty much a pawn being dragged around, terrified, by several powerful, greedy, and heavily armed factions.

      I was reading an "uncorrected proof" that I got as a freebie with purchase of other books but clearly it was the finished version, so the final publication should be substantially the same.
    • 2/5
      There is an interesting germ of an idea in here - a post-Catastrophe world trying with various degrees of success to discover and use ancient tech. Unfortunately it is so subsumed by World-of-Warcraft-style fights, overly-elaborated battle-tech, and RPG world-building that the story gets lost.

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