Isis Unbound
By Allyson Bird
2012
First Published
3.23
Average Rating
206
Number of Pages
Inspired in part by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Percy Bysshe Shelley's, Prometheus Unbound, and the works of Rider Haggard and R.E. Howard, Isis Unbound is set in an alternate history, steampunk version of 1890's Manceastre, Britanniae, ruled by a new governor general related to a descendant of Anthony and Cleopatra, who won the battle of Actium two thousand years ago, and where the ancient Egyptian gods are real. ...Only a god can kill a god. Nepyths has killed her sister, Isis and therefore the dead cannot pass over to the underworld—their ranks are rapidly swelling and they now roam the streets as zombies. Chief Embalmer Ptolemy Child's two daughters, Ella and Loli, aged eighteen and ten respectively, are being instructed in the secrets of the mummification process, when the dead begin to wake and walk. And eventually lead the sisters to the greatest mystery of Isis, herself... Isis Unbound Isis Unbound has won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in a first novel.
Avg Rating
3.23
Number of Ratings
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