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All but alone, wild but resourceful Mira dreams of life beyond the shores of her mystical island. Isolated by her father, a dark sorcerer bent on vengeance, she has only his servants, an air spirit and a misshapen cast-off, to share her company. When Dante conjures a terrible storm to wash ashore his mortal enemies, Mira must chose between her loyalties to her father and what she knows is right. Sail the skies and soar the seas surrounding this Isle of Sound and Wonder as Alyson Grauer masterfully retells William Shakespeare’s classic, The Tempest, bedecked in the trappings of Steampunk.
- Sales Rank: #1867529 in Books
- Published on: 2014-10-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .80" w x 5.25" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
About the Author
Alyson Grauer is a storyteller in multiple mediums, her two primary canvases being the stage and the page. On stage she is often seen in the Chicago area, primarily at Piccolo Theatre, Plan 9 Burlesque, and the Bristol Renaissance Faire. Her nonfiction work has been published in the Journal for Perinatal Education for Lamaze International. Her short fiction can be found in Tales from the Archives (Volume 2) for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences and in two anthologies from Xchyler Publishing, Mechanized Masterpieces: A Steampunk Anthology and Legends and Lore: an Anthology of Mythic Proportions. Alyson is a proud graduate of Loyola University of Chicago and hails originally from Milwaukee, WI. This is her first novel. Twitter: @dreamstobecome Facebook.com/AuthorGrauer
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Tempest in the Time of Tea
By A-E Shapera
ON THE ISLE OF SOUND AND WONDER is such a brave new world that I was several chapters in before I remembered that it is an alternate-universe telling of William Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST. This is Chicago novelist Alyson Grauer's first full-length novel, and I hope it is a harbinger of a long career of character-making and world-forging.
The book is set in a world where reason took root at an earlier age in the West, enabling mechanization and invention while driving mysticism underground...and setting the stage for Steampunk in later centuries, though the book's focus is on events in ages prior to this world's Victorian era. Instead of being asked to take as granted that an old bitter magician justly seeks revenge on political enemies, Grauer shows us grim origins putting into motion dark machinations of restitution for a wide range of characters, some introduced to the tale afresh.
Grauer's imagination shines in her worldbuilding, her marriage of mythology with innovation, her amusing names for characters and places familiar and foreign, and in her reservation of judgment on who truly is a villain on this strange island. The drops from joy to despair throughout the narrative are as dizzying as the flights through fantasy are exhilarating, and this Tempest in the Time of Tea, not merely a steampunk update to Shakespeare, imbues a substantial pageant with driven depth and mechanized menace, flashing across aeons and the great globe itself with stuff of darker dreams. The Isle reveals each character's deepest drives in a perfect storm of madness and magic set against the backdrop of the Age of Reason.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves Shakespeare, Steampunk, strong female characters, equally strong male, mechanical and fantastic characters, flashes back and forth through alternate time, days lost on a magical isle where nothing is what it seems, and such stuff as dreams are made on.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
In a word: Impressive
By Justin
On the Isle of Sound and Wonder (OISW) is, in a word, impressive.
From the very outset of the book you find yourself in an engaging world of magic and machines. Grauer leads you through the mystery of Mira’s peculiar past, and always toward the inevitable destiny one can’t help but anticipate with excitement.
On the Isle of Sound and Wonder by Alyson GrauerThe work is based around Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, a work that I am not intimately familiar with. However, this novel stands quite well on its own two feet. Interwoven into the tale is a great deal of magic, and some rather fantastic creatures that complicate every step for Mira and her friends. On top of that, there is yet another layer of steampunk flavor where airships, automatons, and other instruments, classic to the genre, are applied to further enhance the unique style of the tale.
I’ve read a fair number of indie and breakout author novels. Miss Grauer really impressed me. Her world was vivid, her prose polished and engaging, and her characters were so well developed that you empathized even with the villains for the sake of the distraught back-stories that brought them to their sinister deeds. Most of the time, the book read like the work of a veteran author.
My favorite character’s were the monster Karuburan, and the wicked imp Aurael, though I was a little suspicious that his name was only one letter different from mine… The protagonist of the story is a true ‘strong female character’ if ever I saw one. She leads without either belittling, or emulating the opposite sex. Vulnerable and real, she does her acts of heroism simply because it is ‘the right thing to do’.
While never graphic or scandalous, the story has some elements that might be mature for very young readers. I will admit that I have an overly sensitive nature, and was really upset by some of the abuse the characters suffered, even if it was only evidenced in its repercussions.
I will certainly read OISW again, and that says a lot coming from someone with a long list of books waiting to be read!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Highly Recommended
By Alexis Cohen-Pena
If you enjoy Steampunk, Shakespeare, and cheeky wordplay for the sake of wordplay, then you should absolutely give this book a read. Even if you only like one or two of those, give it a try anyway. I bet the other parts will grow on you.
As advertised, On The Isle of Sound & Wonder is an adaptation of Shakespeare's `The Tempest'. This is blatantly obvious to any Shakespeare fan, and even if you're not familiar with the Bard and his balladry you'll catch on pretty quick. Sound & Wonder repeatedly acknowledges the characters and tropes of Shakespeare's final play (and some of his other plays as well) but at the same time it refuses to be bound and restricted by the plot, motivations, or even word spellings of the original tale. Like so many creative constructions within the Steampunk subculture, Sound & Wonder takes something that is old and beloved, then reshapes and repurposes it into something new and equally marvelous.
Our steampunk-modded fairy tale centers around Mira, the daughter of an exiled duke who has been living on a tiny jungle island for most of her life. She's basically Robinson Crusoe, except with underwater steampunk goggles and an (admittedly justifiable) giant chip on her shoulder. She's stuck on an island when she knows there's a whole world out there ripe for exploring, and her sharp intellect and insatiable curiosity are chomping at the bit. Mira's not only smart and inquisitive, she's pretty and athletic too--basically her situation stinks, but her natural gifts are legion.
Mira's special-ness as observed by other characters struck me as a little Mary Sueish from time to time. But her slightly abrasive, no-nonsense attitude helped to balance that out. Mira doesn't get distracted by the nonessential, and when she wants something she goes for it. So when her father crashes an airship just off their island and the survivors start staggering to shore as part of an intricate spooky plot that doesn't explain itself fully until the very end (and then smacks you in the face like a wet, diabolical fish), you can damn well bet Mira is going to figure things out, and then save the day because she can and she wants to.
By the by, that wordplay I mentioned earlier: It tends to manifest in a shameless and delightful abuse of proper nouns. Places, mythological figures and occasionally objects are twisted phonetically into richer, foreign-sounding versions of themselves. These changes fit well with the addition of Steampunk airships and automatons into the narrative, and the author uses her new words sparingly enough that they don't become boring or repetitive.
And it's fitting that Sound & Wonder should have an exotic, strange feel to it--like the original play, most of the story takes place on an island. But as I said, there are differences. Like the mischievous spirit Ariel (or Aurael, as he's called in Sound & Wonder--and frankly I appreciated the name changes because they helped to differentiate the characters from their Shakesperean counterparts) this book is airborne; swiftly flying to newfound corners of the original story and digging up unanswered questions--ones you might never have thought to ask in the first place. Some of these questions are difficult, and unpleasant (the original Tempest includes slavery and attempted rape) but their importance is conveyed without being too heavy-handed.
Ultimately it was a fun read. I wouldn't call it lighthearted though, not with the multitude of tragic backstories, and characters with unsavory personality traits. Even if you think these characters are sweet, or funny, or you feel sorry for them, you still probably wouldn't want to share a bus stop with most of them. They'd damage your peace of mind. But that doesn't make them any less interesting to read about. And even when it came to the evil characters, I understood them. I got where they were coming from, which was sort of scary when you think about the laundry list of horrible deeds these people were racking up. But ultimately the story has a--well okay not a happy ending, but an OPEN ending, which is a pleasant reverse from the original play. At the end of The Tempest, you can feel the weight of Bill Shakespeare's old age, long history and looming retirement resting heavy on your shoulders. But the end of Sound & Wonder leaves you with a sense of opportunity, aware of the heavy past but sensing a bright future full of fresh possibilities.
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