Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765320469 (0765320460)
Publish date: October 14th 2008
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 299
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Book Club,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia,
Alternate History,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
First of all, it should be pointed out that Slattery's authorial voice, on a sentence-by-sentence, word-by-word basis is dense and captivating. There is so much going on in every line of this book, so many beautifully-described details and inferences and ideas, that I often found myself re-reading p...
I loved Slattery's prose and world-building (for lack of a better term), and the emotional arc of the novel rang true to me, but the plotting was. . .uhh, a little lacking. I wanted a clever heist, I wanted to see the characters working through obstacles. Instead I got a remarkably straightforward p...