The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00C4B2L5K
Publish date: September 15th 2010
Publisher: Pyr
Pages no: 373
Edition language: English
Series: Burton & Swinburne (#1)
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 ...
It's in the pile http://www.goodreads.com/photo/user/1084698-jana?photo=804461Review to come ...eventually.
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)....
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