Once the musket balls start to fly, Tchaikovsky weaves together a story that keeps you hooked with breathless battle scenes, well-drawn characters and an uneasy feeling in your gut that while Marshwic and her red-coated comrades are winning battles they're slowly losing the war... an engrossing story, beautifully told SFX Magazine World building is steady and relentless; this is a fantasy novel with muskets, magic, war machines and social hierarchies. The reader is never overwhelmed with exposition, but it is a dense world and it's a credit to the skill of the author that both the world and the characters contain plenty of surprises Starburst Magazine This is a pacey, relentless ... tightly written and plotted, with exquisite attention to every bloody detail ... Moving, gripping and wonderfully paced, Tchaikovsky has produced a strong stand alone book about a remarkable heroine Thebookbag.co.uk Stories by Adrian Tchaikovsky are always sober, meticulous and carefully constructed. Guns of the Dawn is no exception ... a story of gravitas, that uses its fantasy premise to hold a mirror to our past ... Definitely a thought provoking read SFBook.com Guns of the Dawn has a lot to say about the nature of war and the real reasons as to why such conflicts happen. At the same time, it is also an involving, entertaining read that flows very fluidly and keeps the reader turning the pages well into the night Gingernutsofhorror.com Once the musket balls start to fly, Tchaikovsky weaves together a story that keeps you hooked with breathless battle scenes, well-drawn characters and an uneasy feeling in your gut that while Marshwic and her red-coated comrades are winning battles they're slowly losing the war... an engrossing story, beautifully told SFX Magazine World building is steady and relentless; this is a fantasy novel with muskets, magic, war machines and social hierarchies. The reader is never overwhelmed with exposition, but it is a dense world and it's a credit to the skill of the author that both the world and the characters contain plenty of surprises Starburst Magazine This is a pacey, relentless ... tightly written and plotted, with exquisite attention to every bloody detail ... Moving, gripping and wonderfully paced, Tchaikovsky has produced a strong stand alone book about a remarkable heroine Thebookbag.co.uk Stories by Adrian Tchaikovsky are always sober, meticulous and carefully constructed. Guns of the Dawn is no exception ... a story of gravitas, that uses its fantasy premise to hold a mirror to our past ... Definitely a thought provoking read SFBook.com Guns of the Dawn has a lot to say about the nature of war and the real reasons as to why such conflicts happen. At the same time, it is also an involving, entertaining read that flows very fluidly and keeps the reader turning the pages well into the night Gingernutsofhorror.com