This book has a strange, dreamlike quality that is entirely intentional. After their mother dies, a brother and sister live alone in the wilderness with a strange cat-like creature that spouts out spiritual advice as a reality-obliterating fog encroaches upon them. This is part dystopia, part-post-a...
There are some books that are a bit difficult to review, because all you want to do is talk about THAT ONE THING, except that THAT ONE THING is intensely spoilery, and you don’t want to spoil anything. (See: Code Name Verity.) Engines of the Broken World is one of these books, which means I’ll be da...
I can't recommend this book.Way too disjointed and bizzare for my taste. I really don't think it is appropriate for young teens.Images are very disturbing and it ends with no hope at all.VERY DARK and violent images.Goes beyond creepy.:-(
So I have a dilemma. Ever read a book where there were a few small things you liked, but then everything else was so awful that it overshadowed your reading experience and you couldn't do anything BUT give a book one star? Yeah, that's what I am dealing with when it comes to Engines of the Broken Wo...
So I have a dilemma. Ever read a book where there were a few small things you liked, but then everything else was so awful that it overshadowed your reading experience and you couldn't do anything BUT give a book one star? Yeah, that's what I am dealing with when it comes to Engines of the Broken Wo...
This was an odd little story that just never grabbed me. I kept waiting for it to progress beyond the death of the main characters' mother, but it felt stuck. There was an atmosphere of creepiness, but not enough to keep me interested. After reading about 40%, I skimmed through the remainder of t...
Elspeth and I have decided to move our blog, and in honor of my fisr blog post on our new site I have written a different review for our blog.http://asharedbraincell.blogspot.com/I received this book as an ARC through Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.When I started this book I was a littl...
Wow, this book fucked my mind inside and out.Like post-apocalyptic fiction, I love apocalyptic ones, too. I love reading about the sense of urgency that goes along with it, that kind of emergency where everyone is scrambling and panicking about an event that would end the world as we know it. I've r...
*Recvd via NetGalley 08/05/2013* Expected publication: November 5th 2013 by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
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