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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I don't rate books that I didn't finish. Why I didn't finish is because that the writing is unrelenting bleak.... The plot is interesting, and has so much possibility, but the writing, while adequate, is not fun. It is dark, bleak, and depressing. I really wish the writing was better, this world is fascinating and has a lot going for it. The steampunk elements are incredibly steampunky, and pretty unnerving. The themes of man, machine, power, and man as machine are interesting. The plot is … pretty standard, unfortunately, and the characters don’t really bring it to life. Close, in parts, but not quite. There are some spots where the plot diverges from, “Oliver will get out of this and keep saving the day” and a fair number of those were cool, but lost points for being slightly confusing. Like, I had to stop and read the passages over to work out what had happened? But if all you want is literal human machines and clockwork animals and giant steam guns and robots, well, have I got a book for you. 6/10 This was one of those books that I couldn't stop reading and yet once I did, because the story had ended, I was ultimately unsatisfied. The imagery and atmosphere were gorgeous. I picked this book up because I wanted to read something steampunk and this book not only did not disappoint, it went over and above in providing me what I was craving. I could so easily visualize this heavily-industrialized area of London, from its frightening Gods to its citizens who were ill with the clacks. Where the book lost me was with its characters. I found myself fascinated with Missy, Bergen, Tommy, Oliver, and even Baron Hume, but in the end the only character I really felt I had a handle on was Jeremy Longshore, a clickrat of great achievements. All in all I enjoyed it even though it seemed there was a bit too much crammed into one small book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In this steampunk fantasy set in the Whitechapel section of Victorian London, a mechanized, steam-driven hell ruled by two mysterious, mechanical gods--Mama Engine and Grandfather Clock--a few human veterans of the recent Uprising have formed a resistance group and are preparing another attack, with a secret weapon that could free them, or destroy them all. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I'm not sure why, I just couldn't get into it. There are some really interesting ideas (a steampunkification disease for example), but it was hard to get a grasp on exactly what was going on.
But hey, the cover looked cool.