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Tannat
Tannat rated it 6 years ago
Series: Dr Thomas Silkstone Mystery #2 I eagerly dove into this next book because I found the first one so interesting. I didn't find this one nearly so engaging, however, for a variety of reasons. Some of them had to do with the plot being a little too easy to be untangled (the Carrington and Hun...
Yvette - Bookworlder
Yvette - Bookworlder rated it 10 years ago
Short story collections are often uneven affairs, whether there is one author or, as in this case, nine. Clockwork Fairy Tales is a group of fairy and folk tale retellings that succeed to varying degrees in both the retelling and the attempt to create a Steampunk world. While opinions on which are t...
darlingbooks
darlingbooks rated it 10 years ago
2 stars - great narration but terribly written with a ludicrous story. SKIP
twostoryhouse
twostoryhouse rated it 10 years ago
Unlike "The Siege", the dialog is this book is much closer to what you would expect from the characters in the TV series. The story is solid. A good read all around.
dearmfield
dearmfield rated it 11 years ago
I'm at 20% and from what I understand. Dower has came across a steam powered Lighthouse that walks on legs like spiders and now he is in search of the creator, which he believes is his father.Just like the first in series "Internal Devices" the story extremely drags and makes you feel lost and bored...
eilonwyhan
eilonwyhan rated it 11 years ago
From the man who coined the term "steampunk", an early example of the genre. Young Mr. Dower inherits his father's watch shop. Unfortunately, the Dowers never had much contact, and Young Mr. Dower has no idea how to repair the watches people bring to him. His shop is on the brink of collapse when ...
target acquired
target acquired rated it 12 years ago
Science fiction pulp or sweaty nightmare made real? A tense and often inexplicable fever dream? You be the judge! Seeklight is about the son of a so-called traitor, his flight across a curiously lifeless colony full of curiously lifeless humans, his slow movement into understanding of his purpose an...
kristenrenn
kristenrenn rated it 12 years ago
I'm not sure why this didn't grab me. It has a lot of elements that I usually love. I think the story was just too fractured and even though it all made sense in the end, it took too long to come together and I felt lost most of the time.
target acquired
target acquired rated it 12 years ago
Steampunk, ahoy! And hey, did you know that Jeter coined that term?Remember when those fantastic adventure tales whose main goal was to tell a fast-paced story with some interesting ideas used to clock in under 250 pages and could be enjoyed in one long afternoon? And didn't have sequels? Probably ...
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it 12 years ago
Hmm, it looks like nobody really liked this book all that much, particularly since the common thread through the reviews (both of them – though there are more now) is that the characters in the novel behave nothing like the characters in the series, and that the author obviously did not follow the g...
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