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Act of Will
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Descripción editorial
From the International bestselling author of Steeplejack and Sekret Machines comes an amazing fantasy adventure with tons of magic, mirth, and mayhem!
It’s Will Hawthorne’s birthday. His 18th birthday, as a matter of fact. Today is the day he gets to do what he’s always dreamed of – act.
Well, he’s been acting. But now that he’s an adult, he might get to play a male role for a change. Even better, now he has the opportunity to write plays for his acting company and make the worlds of his imagination come alive and become real.
But the real world is stranger and more magical than he ever imagined.
Suddenly, Will finds himself on the run from the Empire, embroiled in death-defying escapades with a troupe of roving adventurers, and battling…magicians?!? Will doesn’t believe in magic, but it believes in him, and that’s more than enough to make his life far more interesting than he’d ever hoped for.
Can the snarky actor learn to put other before himself?
Will the boy truly become a man?
Is there even a chance his quick wit and smart mouth can get Will out of this mess?
“Fast paced and beautifully written” -- R.A. Salvatore
“I was amazed by these vividly knowledgeable adventures of a youth living by his wits in a world much like Elizabethan England.” -- David Drake
“Adventure meets a hero who just won’t shut up in this fast-talking charmer of a novel” -- Kate Elliott
“Hartley’s prose is so graceful, his narrative so taut and his battle-scenes so exciting and well-described… This is especially true of the compulsively readable second half which unfolds with remarkable grace and power.” -- Booklist
A “clever page-turner” -- Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, "I don't want you thinking you're going to get a tale about some blue-eyed tyke with a heart of gold in a world where good triumphs over evil. You're not, I'm not, and in my experience it never does." Charged as a rebel after escaping the authorities in a world not unlike Elizabethan England, obnoxious, charming Will joins a small mercenary group and proves himself the least honorable of them all. When the group comes under attack from crimson-armored raiders, Will reluctantly fails to betray the companions he is even more reluctantly growing to like. In small, swift "scenes," Hartley (On the Fifth Day) deftly proves that people you shouldn't trust at your back can be the best ones to have at your side.