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Stephen Hunt (1) (1966–)

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25 Obras 3,021 Miembros 90 Reseñas 3 Preferidas

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Obras de Stephen Hunt

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1966
Género
male
Nacionalidad
UK (birth)
Lugar de nacimiento
Canada
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online publisher
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writer

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Having picked this up as a kind of, "Ahh, what the heck, $2.00 is worth it," buy in a used bookshop, with some reservations having read the first in the series a couple of years back, I found I liked this book quite a bit. I'd forgotten some of the details of the world, but that is fine. It almost makes me want to revisit the first book since my main complaint there was that it was too long, too convoluted, too everything-and-the-kitchen-sink... maybe I'd be more into it now than I was then.

4 stars, though really I think the (current) average of ~3.75 is closer to it. I'd probably rate this a 3.5 if I could, and 3 seems like underrating more than 4 is overrating.
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dcunning11235 | 15 reseñas más. | Aug 12, 2023 |
I liked much of this book, but there were definitely a few detractions.

1.) Steam-punk to the face: magic, machines, outlaws, "Carlist" Marxists, faiery/"fey" powers, other dimensions, Chtuluian old gods, orphans **huge inhale**, pirates, mutants, and ice age, underground cities... It does all sort of hang together, but it is like a fire-hose of tropes to the face.

2.) Characters do seem thin. Partially this is because of #1: one of the main characters is an orphan girl... who seems a lot like a generic, spunky orphan heroine. And partially this is because there isn't a lot of time left, even in nearly 600 pages, to flesh out all 20-ish main and important supporting characters.

On the plus side, the world was interesting, perhaps too much so, even: parallel worlds/higher levels/etc.; deep history; outlines of a much larger and politically stable, if not necessarily peaceful, world; and plenty of loose ends to lead to further books (a number of which I see have already been written.)

And, in disagreement with what some have written here, I though the book moved along quite quickly.
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dcunning11235 | 55 reseñas más. | Aug 12, 2023 |
This book kept getting weirder and weirder, and that's a good thing. An odd mash-up of steampunk and magic. Lots of shout outs to Dickens. Like this review, it strikes off into many directions, most of them are not tied up by the end of the novel. For a good part of the book, I kept wondering when a couple characters were going to reappear; one of them did in the last chapters. The last chapter was maddening since it gave a few glimpses of what happens to some of the characters but then it ended.… (más)
 
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tornadox | 55 reseñas más. | Feb 14, 2023 |
I liked it better than the first book, but not sure why.
 
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Obras
25
Miembros
3,021
Popularidad
#8,453
Valoración
3.2
Reseñas
90
ISBNs
123
Idiomas
3
Favorito
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