"[Carpenter] managed to capture a bit of that original magic that drives sailors to the sea, and it's a magic that leaps off the page at every turn."--Lightspeed

* "There's plenty to savor in this first book in the "Tides of Magic" trilogy for fans of Patrick O'Brian's "Aubrey/Maturin" novels, readers seeking a new fantasy to fill the void left by the end of Naomi Novik's "Temeraire" series, lovers of?Our Flag Means Death, those looking for a less-cozy take on Rebecca Thorne's?Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, and anyone who'd like to rehash the Napoleonic Wars with a compelling narrative, great characters, swashbuckling derring-do, and epic, heartbreaking betrayals."--Library Journal

"Taking a page from the classic naval novels of C.S. Forrester and Alexander Kent, debut novelist Carpenter opens his Tides of Magic series by tossing a mage and a commander into a series of entertaining nautical escapades in a fantasy setting reminiscent of the French Revolution. Carpenter's off to a promising start."--Publishers Weekly

"A fun, light, and entertaining sea story with magic."--Locus

"One of the things that the Aubrey and Maturin series did extremely well, that is absolutely a part of?The Price of Redemption, is the way that the story takes the reader through the perspective of a previously (land)lubberly point of view character - Enid here and Maturin in the original series - and uses their instruction by beautifully descriptive but still fascinating details to draw the reader into the arcane mysteries of the sea. It's marvelous and riveting and a compulsive page-turner every single league of its way."--Reading Reality