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A thrilling new Steampunk fantasy from a talented debut author TWO GODS-ONE CHANCE FOR MANKIND In Victorian London, the Whitechapel section is a mechanized, steam-driven hell, cut off and ruled by two mysterious, mechanical gods-Mama Engine and Grandfather Clock. Some years have passed since the Great Uprising, when humans rose up to fight against the machines, but a few brave veterans of the Uprising have formed their own Resistance-and are gathering for another attack. For now they have a secret weapon that may finally free them-or kill them all...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Rare I do this, write a review, but needs must!
As I read this book, i kept having to check I hadn't started the 2nd book in a trilogy, there seemed little introduction to the characters and I felt a bit lost in the plot.
I liked a lot of the ideas in this story, but felt it lacking in explanation as to how and why things had happened the way they did.
This should have been a 4, maybe even a 5 star book in my opinion, but there seems something just not quite right, or missing from it that makes it just an ok book, not a great read!
As I read this book, i kept having to check I hadn't started the 2nd book in a trilogy, there seemed little introduction to the characters and I felt a bit lost in the plot.
I liked a lot of the ideas in this story, but felt it lacking in explanation as to how and why things had happened the way they did.
This should have been a 4, maybe even a 5 star book in my opinion, but there seems something just not quite right, or missing from it that makes it just an ok book, not a great read!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By biss
Format:Mass Market Paperback
again, great concepts and a bad execution.
the whole setting is great! speampunk horror, parallel history, diseases that turns flesh to clockwork, unbelievable architecture, conceptual gods.
this book has so many good things, it should have been longer.
instead we are given a meager 374 pages that don't explain why things are the way they are, how do they work in the setting. ok, life is like this, things are and things happen, but this is why books can be better than actual life: you can get the whole layout of things fully explained.
anyway, it all works smoothly and you keep waiting for some later explanations about details that will not come (is john scared actually jack the ripper? or mr hyde?). instead by the end it all gets confusing. characters drop out of the plot, you are shown wonderful metaphysical scenes that don't actually fit with what is happening, you never understand what the stack is all about, what the fabled weapon is and how it is actually used.... well, you get what i mean: the book just hurries to a confusing conclusion and you actually can't understand what is happening.
who and what are the gods? how did they get to whitechapel and how did their arrival cause the changes we are witnessing? how are they really defeated? give the book 150 pages more to delve into that and you have a 4 stars on your hands.
solid idea, great concepts, neat plot but a hurried ending to spoil all this.
buy it, definitely. more so if you are a vertigo reader from the early 90's, but prepare to be disappointed and wish for more.
the whole setting is great! speampunk horror, parallel history, diseases that turns flesh to clockwork, unbelievable architecture, conceptual gods.
this book has so many good things, it should have been longer.
instead we are given a meager 374 pages that don't explain why things are the way they are, how do they work in the setting. ok, life is like this, things are and things happen, but this is why books can be better than actual life: you can get the whole layout of things fully explained.
anyway, it all works smoothly and you keep waiting for some later explanations about details that will not come (is john scared actually jack the ripper? or mr hyde?). instead by the end it all gets confusing. characters drop out of the plot, you are shown wonderful metaphysical scenes that don't actually fit with what is happening, you never understand what the stack is all about, what the fabled weapon is and how it is actually used.... well, you get what i mean: the book just hurries to a confusing conclusion and you actually can't understand what is happening.
who and what are the gods? how did they get to whitechapel and how did their arrival cause the changes we are witnessing? how are they really defeated? give the book 150 pages more to delve into that and you have a 4 stars on your hands.
solid idea, great concepts, neat plot but a hurried ending to spoil all this.
buy it, definitely. more so if you are a vertigo reader from the early 90's, but prepare to be disappointed and wish for more.
By Dee_Williams
Format:Mass Market Paperback
what an awesome book. detailed, complex but incredibly easy to read and get caught up in.
can't wait to read the next one!
can't wait to read the next one!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A good interesting read
I throughly enjoyed read this- I did have to go back to parts and read again just to confirm what happened a few pages back but overall I liked how you just jump right into the... Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2010 by Miss C.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great steampunk thriller
Not sure why other reviewers are so put out that not everything is completely explained and neatly wrapped up for them. Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2009 by D. Coombes
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