Abandoned @ 11 % I'm not finding this very interesting, so I'm throwing in the towel after a couple chapters. I've read too many books that I've disliked lately to put up with one that I'm pretty sure I'll only find mediocre. Next!
Power and control, society and structure, alchemy and engineering, machine and gargoyle. This is a world populated by the strange and steampunky, with emancipated (but maybe not really) humanoid robots, and gargoyles slowly turning to stone against their will. It's also a world in flux, where feudal...
I never thought I'd encounter a book like The Alchemy of Stone. It’s something I can’t describe in mere words.I’m serious. I can’t find words to describe it but here goes my weak and unworthy attempt. It’s a heart-breaking story, and yet it has many emotional and happy, at times, moments. It shows a...
3,5L'alchimista di Ekaterina Sedia è un romanzo autoconclusivo di genere steampunk dalle premesse davvero interessanti e con diversi spunti di riflessione molto attuali.Vediamo innanzitutto più da vicino la storia. Il mondo è molto diverso da quello che conosciamo e tecnologia e alchimia sono due sc...
This book is incredibly complex, and I'm having a hard time coming up with a good review for it.There are so many issues all hitting at the same time. And interestingly, the whole uprising of some of the classes in this book happens as the same time of the Occupy movement, and it feels so real.I (n...
The writing style of this Steampunk novel was easy to read and quite lovely. It reminded me a lot of Battle Angel Alita and a bit of Full Metal Alchemist (Anime & Manga). It was interesting to see things from the Gargoyles perspective - especially as they watched the city crumble around them. The e...
This one reminded me of the China Mieville books that I've read. It's somewhat less grotesque and I really liked the clockwork girl alchemist protagonist. Everyone's looking for their own freedom in a stone city full of mechanics, alchemists and gargoyles.
When I re-read The Little Mermaid as an adult something about it bugged me. This something bugs me more and more each time I re-read the story. It's not the pain the mermaid feels when she walks; all of Andersen's characters seem to get tortured, the Ugly Duckling was a male and he got frozen in t...
Imagine your computer suddenly coming to life and walking off your desk and was angry at humanity for creating it to serve in the first place. This is what Mattie is like. She resents Loharri because he created her from nuts and bolts (or whatever) to serve as his maid. She is emancipated (don't a...
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