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Street magician Missy Masters inherited more than the usual genetic cocktail from her estranged grandfather. She also got his preternatural control of shadow and his legacy as the vigilante hero, Mr Mystic. Problem is, being a pulp hero takes more than a good fedora and a knack for witty banter, and Missy lacks the one thing Mr Mystic had: experience. Determined to live up to her birthright, Missy journeys to China to seek the aid of Lung Huang, the ancient master who once guided her grandfather.Lung Huang isn't quite as ancient as Missy expected, and a romantic interlude embroils her in the politics of Lung Huang and his siblings, the nine dragon-guardians of creation. When Lung Di-Lung Huang's brother and mortal enemy-raises a magical barrier that cuts off China from the rest of the world, it falls to the new Mr. Mystic to prove herself by taking down the barrier.As Missy prepares to confront Lung Di, she faces a tough decision: remain loyal to Lung Huang and see China destroyed, or side with the bad guy and save the world.File Under: Fantasy [ Sins of the Grandfather / Missy and Master / Geek Fu / Little Trouble in Big China ]
The Dragons of Heaven, by Alyc Helms- Amazon Sales Rank: #1007936 in Books
- Brand: Helms, Alyc
- Published on: 2015-06-30
- Released on: 2015-06-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.87" h x 1.10" w x 4.18" l, .37 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 416 pages
Review “All the fun of pulp adventure, filtered through a twenty-first century lens. Helms isn’t content simply to play in the genre; she questions it, complicates it, adds layers it didn’t have eighty years ago. Missy’s journey to become Mr. Mystic isn’t the usual heroic training montage – but it’s a hell of a lot of fun.”– Marie Brennan, author of A Natural History of Dragons“In her first novel The Dragons of Heaven, Alyc Helms explores various San Franciscos (the city as it is, was, and looks to passing tourists), as well as the creatures different cultures and their myths collectively call “dragons”, with an emphasis on the Chinese version. Helms keeps this complicated mix of genres, worlds, and eras (modern, historic, mythic) in balance and in motion throughout the book, leaving me eager for more.”– Farren Miller, Locus Magazine“The Dragons of Heaven combines superheroes, romance, ancient mythological China, and does it right. The world-building is stunning, and Missy’s challenges feel incredibly real as do her reactions to amazing worlds she’s put in. In fighting against the machinations of overly honorable yet incredibly nefarious ancient dragons, its clear she’s the best chance humanity’s got.”– Cassie Alexander, author of the Edie Spence series“The Dragons of Heaven is a fun read. It is a genre blend that combines urban fantasy with folkloric myth, the superhero comic, romance, and the complex family dynamics featured in ‘mainstream’ fiction. There is magical action driving the plot aplenty, there are moments of humor and pop culture reference. But there are also great doses of introspection, of character development for Missy, and deep themes at its core.”– Skiffy & Fanty“If you are looking for a fresh urban fantasy with superheroes, Chinese folklore, realistic heroine and a great story, then you must try it out!”– Bookworm Dreams“The Dragons of Heaven straddles the divisions between mythology, pulp adventure, superhero comic, and bathetic tragedy. The Dragons of Heaven is fun. It’s a mashup of epic genres. It’s an action-packed romance spanning decades and continents. Recommended for fans of Jack Burton,Astro City, and Tea from an Empty Cup.”– The Dinglehopper
About the Author Alyc Helms did her graduate work in anthropology and folklore, which makes her useless for just about anything except writing. She lives and writes in a dilapidated beach bungalow outside of San Francisco, near a horse trail, a troll bridge, and a raptor preserve (hopefully, the veloci- variety). THE DRAGONS OF HEAVEN is her debut novel.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A fresh #uf with superheroes & Chinese folklore By Bookworm Dreams You can already guess that a dragon in a book title and on the cover meant instant interest from me. When I started reading I didn’t expect much, but The Dragons of Heaven exceeded my expectations.LIKES* Interesting setting. I always like to read about a world where super-heroes exist. Blame it on that little girl who watched in awe as Superman jumped over the tallest building. And Alyc Helms is more optimistic than Brandon Sanderson in Steelheart, people with super-powers are not all villains – some are fighting for the good. So the optimist in me is satisfied too.* Chinese folklore. For the better part of the year, I’m talking how I can’t wait for Richelle Mead’s Soundless to be released, when unexpectedly this little gem falls into my lap. The Dragons of Heaven has everything I have ever imagined an urban fantasy novel with Chinese folklore elements should have: Huxian, Fenghuang, Qilin and dragons (of course). It was all new too me and very exotic.* Surprises. I started reading The Dragons of Heaven thinking I got it all figured out. Than surprises and twists just started popping out. I’ll tell you just the first one: I didn’t read the summary and based on cover I thought that main character was a male. The rest… Well too spoilery to talk about it here. :)* Realistic kick-ass heroine. Of course, there is a charm in a heroine who yells “Yippee ki-yay!” while destroying everything in her line of sight. But, I liked Missy more. She is tough, but she thinks before she acts and does not use force if it’s not necessary.* Ending without cliffhangers. The Dragons of Heaven is the first book in the new series, but Alyc Helms didn’t succumb to the new trend and left me hanging until the next year. Everything important gets resolved and there are few clues and hints what will happen in the next book.* The Shadows. Missy has an interesting power to call the shadows from Shadow Realm. I loved that the shadows were conscious beings and didn’t always do what was expected.DISLIKES* I wanted more world-building, especially related to all super-hero stuff. There are Citizen Vigilante laws and organisation that good super-heroes belong to (something like S.H.I.E.L.D.) but Alyc Helms gives just enough facts about them for a story to make sense. I was intrigued and wished for more…* Glitchy way of story telling. Alyc Helms decided to tell the story in an unorthodox way – starting from the middle of it. Narration of chapters in The Dragons of Heaven switches between ‘Now’ and ‘Then’. The result is that you find out how it all started slowly as it is resolved. This way of storytelling is interesting, but doesn’t work all the time and can cause confusion.IN THE END…The Dragons of Heave was a pleasant surprise. If you are looking for a fresh urban fantasy with superheroes, Chinese folklore, realistic heroine and a great story, then you must try it out!Disclaimer: I received this ebook from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyable mix of genres with heart By Bacterialover From my review for SkiffyandFanty.com:The Dragons of Heaven is a fun read. It is a genre blend that combines urban fantasy with folkloric myth, the superhero comic, romance, and the complex family dynamics featured in ‘mainstream’ fiction. There is magical action driving the plot aplenty, there are moments of humor and pop culture reference. But there are also great doses of introspection, of character development for Missy, and deep themes at its core.I particularly appreciated the way Helms writes Missy’s development within the plot and structural confines of the novel. The chapters of The Dragons of Heaven are a contrapuntal conversation between Missy’s present and the formative events of her past. Some readers have objected to this organization, but I consider it essential for the novel. The Missy of the present, who runs around the night streets of Chinatown as Mr. Mystic, is not the same person as the young woman who left to discover her grandfather’s past, and herself, in China. The relevance and meaning behind the plot of the present only make sense to the reader as they learn of Missy’s past. It is a gradual build that effectively caught and held my attention.If you go into this expecting quick info-dumps and spoon-fed explanations to simplify a complex set of characters bridging two time periods and two cultures, you will be disappointed. The story is not just a fun, mindless adventure; it requires some patience and thought. With its mixture of genres the novel succeeds in thwarting reader expectation because it never commits to any stereotypical direction.The Dragons of Heaven contains some of the usual themes that one might expect from this as a superhero story: the moral quagmire of vigilantism, personal sacrifices made for the dedication to the job, the dangers of mystical powers that touch darkness, etc. However, the general recurring theme I found unique and fascinating is the sense of intrusion on worlds not one’s own. Conflicts over a sense of intrusion lie at the center of Missy, within the supporting characters, and in the philosophical differences that drive the plot through the plans of the villain.Missy is a woman dressing up as a male superhero, interpretable as commentary on gender ‘intrusion’, that ridiculous notion that Wonder Women can’t compete at the level of Supermen or that Black Widow can’t hold a film of her own (or even merit an action figure). Beyond the matter of gender, Missy is a newcomer to the superhero business, and other ‘official members of the club’ see her as an unwelcome, misguided intruder on their gig.She is also an intruder into the shadow realm, a zone filled with many dangerous creatures but also home to a lovably devoted being who is happy to serve her, and acts somewhat like a familiar or as a pet. Missy struggles to come to terms with this level of control over another intelligent being, in how much sacrifice and risk she can demand.And like her grandfather, Missy is a cultural intruder, a Westerner intimately tied into Chinese civilization; she is a mortal intruding into the affairs of immortal gods, into the strained existence of a dragon family. The central portion of the novel is primarily concerned with these conflicts, as Missy struggles against being viewed as a foolishly unworthy pretender, and as a woman who should obey a husband rather than follow her own thoughts in conversation with a partner.Even aside from Missy this theme arises again and again: the intrusion of parents into the lives of their children (or vice versa), intrusion of gods into the affairs of mortals, intrusion of modern ignorance into ancient wisdom, intrusion of new love into older responsibilities.Despite the powerful adversity that Missy faces, she stands resolutely strong, a sympathetic female protagonist that draws strength from being female without giving into societal gender expectations. For all of the conventional genre elements that The Dragons of Heaven draws upon, it is filled with unconventional relationships and nicely entertains while inviting thought or conversation on cultural ownership/appropriation.Disclaimer: I received a free electronic copy of this from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. An Urban Fantasy Martial Arts Extravaganza By Beth L. Cato I loved the heck out of this. I've read over a hundred urban fantasy novels and it's so easy for me to pick one up now and think, "I think I've read something really close to this before." Not so with The Dragons of Heaven. It feels like a combination of martial arts movie and superhero tale and urban fantasy, and that blend works very well.Missy Masters is a superhero on the streets of San Francisco. Her heroic alter-ego is actually the hero Mr. Mystic--the persona created by her grandfather. She's quite familiar with Chinatown and its denizens (human and spiritual), but also has intimate knowledge of the spiritual plain in China. That's because she went there to seek out the master who trained her grandfather--and life became a whole lot more complicated as a result.The full novel hops between Then and Now; Then being her training in China, and Now being the new worldwide peril that is a consequence of her actions. Right at beginning, the switches jarred me, but I was soon engaged by the twining plot lines. There were plenty of surprises along the way. There were some major details Missy never thought on in the Now plot that struck me as odd when the reveals finally came in the end; she was a more unreliable narrator than I expected.Overall, though, it was great fun. With the stress of the past week, I really needed a book that I could drop into like a nice hot bubble bath. The Dragons of Heaven was perfect.
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