The Half-Made World
by:
Felix Gilman (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00GHK71DG
Publish date: December 12th 2013
Publisher: Corsair
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Series: The Half-Made World (#1)
2.5 Stars: The world is fascinating and stand-out. The characters were good, but not in a moral sense. I did love the different POVs from The Gun, The Line and Noob. The plot sounds good but it and the characters seem to be bogged down with extra weight and repetition. It took a while to get into an...
This book was mechanically adequate, but I just found myself completely uninterested in finding out how it was going to turn out. Perhaps unfortunately, I finished it because I only realised how little I cared about what happened next about two thirds of the way through.
3.5 starsI really liked this one. It's got elements of Manifest Destiny; The Wild, Wild West; The Dark Tower; and China Mieville's Railsea all mashed up into a nice dark adventure.The story weaves together several arcs, but they all center on what might be contained in a former general's head. On th...
Incredibly imaginative. I definitely felt as if I was in the hands of someone who knew what they were doing and where they were going and I was happy to be along for the ride. A great re-imagining of the wild west, mixing in mythology, and making a world that felt like a combination of the U.S. west...
I really liked the setting (a fantasy Western), the premise, the Gun and the Line. Creedmoor was a solid, interesting character. But Liv, the female protagonist, despite some sporadic episodes, read like your typical damsel in distress. The aboriginal people in the story were also a bit off-putting,...