by Ekaterina Sedia
I loved that the book was set in Russia and gave a non-British perspective. I don't want to drop any spoilers which makes this review tough to write. There are some lovely revelations of character as well as country ... but, no spoilers!So, the writing was great. The narrator came across beautifully...
A bit too lightweight to be really enjoyable. The plot is paper thin and full of holes. None of the characters except the protagonist have any personality at all, and she's a 19th century Russian aristocrat with improbably 21st century notions of proper identity-politics PC conduct. Even the setting...
Train rides are wonderous things. The sound of the machine, the scenery, the quiet, the conversation, the fact you can read without throwing up. Wonderful things train rides. No wonder that there have been several romantic, mystery, action, and what not written involing trains, including this boo...
I'm going to come back to this book - it's intriguing enough that I want to find out what happens, but I'm not sufficiently caught by the characters.I wasn't sure precisely what kind of story this would be going in, and at this stage I'm putting it down as alt-history espionage mixed with steampunk ...
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