by Jean-Christophe Valtat
I'm having a hard time deciding whether I liked this book or not. One one hand, the world building was absolutely fantastic, with just the right amount of detail to build it up in your head and leave the rest up to your imagination. New Venice seems like a splendid magical city of wonder and corrupt...
So there was this bit on BBC World this morning about sexism in France.Explains the fact that female characters are cyphers in this book.Intersting idea and world building. But needs more character and plot.
Finished the book and I still do not know who or what the ever so important Helen was supposed to be. It is very confusing.Ahem, we'll get back to that. Aurorama, by the end, reminded me a lot of The Court of the Air in both its strengths and its weaknesses. That is, both books have extremely strong...
I guess I won't read this after all even though I was looking forward to it. The Amazon Vine preview copy came with the last 5 chapters missing. What's the point of that?
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