Not bad but it felt like the author was trying too hard to be clever.In an Albertian rather than Victorian England Engineers make noisy technology; Eugenicists develop animals for particular purposes; Libertines oppose rigidity and support creativity while the Rakes try to outdo each other in libera...
By all accounts I should have enjoyed this. It was fairly intriguing, but the writing and most of all the dialogue was hard to follow. Nothing seemed to happen within the first few chapters, except someone was shot and someone else was quite saddened by the event. Alternative history with steampunk ...
Esta es una novela fascinante que abrió mi perspectiva a un sinnúmero de posibilidades literarias. Está escrita en la tradición del Steampunk clásico... pero con un giro potente que agrega al relato una característica más "convincente" (entendiendo el concepto dentro del contexto propio de la obra)....
[a:Mark Hodder|3222611|Mark Hodder|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1315597718p2/3222611.jpg]'s debut novel, [b:The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack|7293120|The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne, #1)|Mark Hodder|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327931939s/7293120.jpg|8590363], ...
EH? EH! this desperate steampunk non-adventure plays like an overly hysterical farce with delusions of grandeur. although seemingly full of creative ideas, those ideas have run sadly amuck. there is no grounding of the frivolity in interesting characterization or sparkling dialogue - both of which r...
Don't mess with time travel, guys. You WILL fuck it up and change history, and then you'll try to fix the damage and just end up preventing yourself from being born. Trust me on this one.I probably never would have heard of this book if it weren't for GoodReads, but I'm so glad I did. It seems like ...
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