Laura’s world, while different in many ways, has enough similarities to our modern world to make the stakes and tensions familiar. Ireland works to make this period setting accessible to readers, and that work pays off. Readers are very quickly dropped into a busy world that has a full and impactful history. They’re soon sent on their first mission and discover that it might be more dangerous than it is exciting. But Laura can sense something more to Skylark, especially since he’s so cagey about his past. She quickly meets another powerful mage named Skylark who’s on a similar path, and he agrees to help her learn the mystic arts. This branch of the military specifically works on correcting the events of the Great Rust so that Mechomancy can become the dominant industry. With a heavy heart and an empty pocket, Laura reluctantly applies to join the Bureau of the Arcane’s Conservation Corps. Determined as ever, Laura boards a train for New York City with dreams of earning her mage’s license and creating more opportunity for herself.Īfter six months studying as an apprentice, Laura hasn’t accomplished much. Many disagree, especially since the Great Rust, a mystical event that showed the weaknesses of relying too heavily on magic. As a wielder of the mystical arts in the 1930s, Laura believes that the nation’s future still lies in mystical arts, not the new trade of industry and technology referred to as Mechomancy. 96 Rust in the Root has Laura Facing an Uncertain Future
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