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    The Spirit Rebellion
    The Spirit Rebellion
    The Spirit Rebellion
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Spirit Rebellion

    Written by Rachel Aaron

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

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    About this audiobook

    Eli Monpress is brilliant. He's incorrigible. And he's a thief.

    He's also still at large, which drives Miranda Lyonette crazy. While she's been kicked out of the Spirit Court, Eli's had plenty of time to plan his next adventure. But now the tables have turned, because Miranda has a new job—and an opportunity to capture a certain thief.

    Things are about to get exciting for Eli. He's picked a winner for his newest heist. His target: the Duke of Gaol's famous "thief-proof" citadel. Eli knows Gaol is a trap, but what's life without challenges? Except the Duke is one of the wealthiest men in the world, a wizard who rules his duchy with an iron fist, and an obsessive perfectionist with only one hobby: Eli.

    It seems that everyone is hunting for Eli Monpress.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 26, 2010
    ISBN9781441886613
    The Spirit Rebellion
    Author

    Rachel Aaron

    Rachel Aaron was born in Atlanta, GA. After a lovely, geeky childhood full of books and public television, and then an adolescence spent feeling awkward about it, she went to the University of Georgia to pursue English Literature with an eye towards getting her PhD. Upper division coursework cured her of this delusion, and she graduated in 2004 with a BA and a job, which was enough to make her mother happy. She currently lives in a 70s house-of-the-future in Athens, GA with her loving husband, overgrown library, and small, brown dog. Find out more about the author at www.rachelaaron.net.

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    • 4/5
      This is a great second entry in a series -- not just the same characters having another adventure, but the characters growing, changing, and getting more of their backstory revealed.
    • 4/5
      The Spirit Rebellion is the second in The Legend of Eli Monpress series by Rachel Aaron. The story takes a slightly darker turn as Miranda deals with the results of her actions from the first book and Eli is on to his next robbery.Thanks to their escape in Mellinor, Niko needs a new coat. Who better to make a customer coat for her rather specific needs than a master Shaper wizard? Which, of course, comes with a high cost: an incredibly rare, if useless, sword made from bone metal. The catch? The easiest one to steal happens to be kept in the "thief proof" citadel of the Duke of Gaol. As a master thief this presents the ultimate challenge, even though the closer they get to Gaol the more it looks like a trap aimed specifically at Eli. After all, what is life without a little risk? Meanwhile, Miranda returns to the Spirit Court having failed in her mission to capture Eli Monpress. It looks as if Miranda's career as a Spiritualist may be in jeopardy.Impossible object for Eli to steal? Check. Evil, OCD bad guy who is hell bent on capturing Eli? Check. Lots of oppressed spirits? Check. More about demonseeds? Check. This book takes the foundation Aaron has laid down and builds upon it. We even get a little more background on Eli. And quite a bit of fast paced action. About the only thing we don't get is too much more depth in the other characters. I hope that Miranda, Niko and Josep are fleshed out a bit more in the third installment.You still can't go wrong if you're looking for a nice, lighter fantasy to read. This one hit the spot.
    • 5/5
      Fast moving story following the further adventures of Eli Monpress as he tackles a treasure in a supposedly thief-proof citadel. He's walking into a certain trap, which is just what he enjoys doing.
      The secondary plot follows Miranda, the person charged with capturing him in the previous book and her struggles with bureaucracy and officious political manoeuvring.
      Great characters and plenty of hair-raising adventure.
    • 5/5
      I loved the first novel in this series, and the second is at least as good.The plot is rather basic, but works. More importantly, the characters develop, as does the world- so various of the opposing trends get both more complicated and yet easier to understand. It's complicated... but that's what makes it fun.You could probably start with this novel, but you'd be missing a lot of important world-building.I am really enjoying this series a lot. I especially like that even those who end up more-or-less on the same side still have serious disagreements; I get tired of novels where all the "good guys" automatically band together- with little impetus- and with no respect to their fundamental disagrements... but neither do these novels spend all the energy on bickering. VERY nicely done!
    • 4/5
      The Spirit Rebellion is a fun follow-up to the first book. This time, we get even deeper into the worldbuilding and find out more about pretty much all of the main characters. Eli, Miranda, and Josef all get more layers, but the character whose mind I loved seeing into the most was Nico. I suspect that the mystery surrounding the demonseeds is going to be integral to the overarching plot of the series. In short, I really enjoyed The Spirit Rebellion, especially the character development, and I’m looking forward to reading book three.
    • 4/5
      A fun read, featuring a confident thief, a proud spiritualist, and a cast of vibrant characters. Following the events of The Spirit Thief, Miranda has fallen out of favor with the Spirit Court and Eli Monpress has moved on to new projects. However, the paths of these individuals happen to cross and Miranda and Eli once again adopt a method of reluctant cooperation to achieve their ends. Quick and fun, I hope to continue the adventures of Miranda and Eli soon!
    • 4/5
      Another Rachel Aaron book that I really enjoyed. I'm starting to really like Miranda too. This follows on from the first book, Eli has got a reward from his last escapade and goes to get a new cloak to hide Nico's burgeoning Demonseed, the payment is a sword that is only easily available in the Duke of Goal's treasury. The Duke of Goal is determined to catch Eli, and he rules his duchy with a rod of iron.There are moments when it seems to be a little studdery but overall it just dragged me through and I really enjoyed it, another good read, and I need the next one, it took me a while to get around to reading this, I was partially afraid that it was going to suffer from being book 2 in a series, but no, it was as much fun as the first one.
    • 4/5
      Just like The Spirit Thief, this was a fast, fun, engrossing read.If you like your adventures leavened with some humour and a whole lot of mayhem, you can't do better than reading Rachel Aaron's Eli Monpress books. Seriously. These are simply a "rollicking good time," to use an overburdened phrase that actually does apply in this situation.Eli is in his usual good form, Miranda is caught between a rock, a West Wind, and a very hard place when it comes to keeping her vows as a Spiritualist and also protecting her spirits, and Josef and Nico are, as always, badgering Eli and trying to deal with Nico's awakening Demonseed. We get to see more of the League of Storms, which is starting to fascinate me, and also hear about the Shaper Wizards, who Awaken objects and make the mundane do wonderful things. I'm really looking forward to finding out more about these other groups in later books.I'm also looking forward to finding out more about Eli's past - we got a few tantalizing glimpses here, including an introduction to both his birth and adoptive fathers - and about Nico's little demon problem. Can't wait to start the next book! There are cliches all over the place in The Spirit Rebellion, and the Duke of Gaol reminded me of no one more than Lord Farquhadt from Shrek (which got a little annoying at times), but just as with The Spirit Thief, these little annoyances are easily overlooked in favour of a really well-executed romp through a nicely developed fantasy world.My one real quibble is that it followed the Exact. Same. Format. as The Spirit Thief - oh look, Eli is doing stuff, Miranda is doing stuff, we have a climactic swordfight for Josef about 2/3 of the way through the book, Eli and Miranda do stuff together, and...wrap. But hey, the formula works. So I can't really complain too much, eh?
    • 4/5
      Not as great as its predecessor The Spirit Thief, but still rather delightful with a little more history behind Eli and his companions. I think Rachel Aaron has set up the stage rather nicely, and she seems to building the momentum at a satisfactory rate for the remainder of the series.The title is a bit misleading since the actual rebellion does not happen until later. After the leaps and bounds that Eli had us taking in the first book, I am a little disappointed with The Spirit Rebellion in that it takes a little longer for the action to explode on the pages. I was a little impatient for Miranda and Eli to butt heads again, waiting for them to realize that they were both in the same city, trying to figure out the Duke and his almost-oppressive hold on his city's spirits. It was like a cat-and-mouse game, but there was too much teasing and not enough pouncing!When everything starts to pick up the pace (and by that I mean everything starts to fall apart), The Spirit Rebellion reached the same breathless page-turning climax that I had been waiting for since I opened the book. Definitely well worth the wait - even though I didn't like it at the time!As I mentioned earlier, The Spirit Rebellion gives us a little more backstory on the characters, especially Eli, though it does not give us the whole picture yet. I definitely closed the book with more questions on how Eli turned out the way he did - but I think that was Ms. Aaron's intent to leave more questions to whet our appetites. Furthermore, Nico's predicament as a demonseed on the point of doomsday gets more spotlight, most likely to set up for the 3rd book The Spirit Eater. She is a ticking time-bomb, and I am both curious and terrified to find out how Ms. Aaron plans on handling Nico's future.I still LOVE the magic system that Ms. Aaron has built - and its complexity just gets better and better as the series progresses.Whereas The Spirit Thief has doors and trees just swooning at the feet of Eli's charisma, the spirits in The Spirit Rebellion are trying hard not to be to save themselves from punishment - it was amazing to learn why they are how they are and rewarding to see how they get out of their tricky situation!The Spirit Rebellion is quite enjoyable - it may seem slower-paced at first, but it definitely delivers the action on a silver platter by the end and leaves you wanting to come back for thirds!