Over Thrown is a story of valour and courage set against a backdrop of uncompromising degradation. With magnificently intricate worldbuilding it is perfect for readers who loved the magical realism of Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone, the parallel worlds of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, and the epic scope of Chris Wooding's The Braided Path.The once magnificent chimera are a race of human-animal hybrids. Created by magicians, they now serve as slaves to humanity, forced to live in squalor and poverty. But the balance of power is shifting. They have found a voice and it will not be silenced.Caitlyn, a humble assistant at the Bluebell Caf, leads this ingenious work of speculative fiction. A chance discovery catapults her from her mundane existence - where the highlight of her day is icing the cake - into the turbulent world of Farearth, where the chimera are treated as chattel, and forced to work under the yoke of human oppressors.In a chaotic land with a mashed-up timeline suspended between a gloriously debauched Roman Empire, a magnificently wretched Victorian England, and an era where magicians meddle with the very essence of what makes us human Caitlyn drops like a spark in a tinderbox, igniting a fervorous insurgency.She soon finds herself embroiled in a cooking pot of corruption and deceit, in a place where she doesn't know the rules, and to love the wrong person is punishable by a terrible death. Clinging desperately to the only person who is civil to her in this whole damn messed up world - a cat-chimera named Timmon, who would really rather she had never found him she embarks on a voyage of a lifetime.Can Timmon help her find her way home?Or will she succumb to the alluring tug of this strange dystopia?Over Thrown is a cosy, yet visionary, fantasy tale of women's empowerment and emancipation set in an alternative reality where nothing is quite as it seems.
