#610
Title: Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century #1)
Author: Cherie Priest
Publisher: Tor
Year: 2009
416 pages
I found this less engaging than many YA fantasy novels, especially with such promising components as poisonous gas and zombies in a Northwest steampunk context. My big problem (other than the thought, Really? You need poisonous gas and zombies to bring it alive?) was that the characters seemed to exist only to push the plot along. I had little sense of identification with most of the players. They spent much of the time that might have deepened them, or shown how events changed them, in walking, running, chasing, or being chased. I don't mind that to a point, but I'm hoping that the next in the series has less perambulating and more psychology. I'd like the next one to build on this promising beginning by being better than okay.
Title: Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century #1)
Author: Cherie Priest
Publisher: Tor
Year: 2009
416 pages
I found this less engaging than many YA fantasy novels, especially with such promising components as poisonous gas and zombies in a Northwest steampunk context. My big problem (other than the thought, Really? You need poisonous gas and zombies to bring it alive?) was that the characters seemed to exist only to push the plot along. I had little sense of identification with most of the players. They spent much of the time that might have deepened them, or shown how events changed them, in walking, running, chasing, or being chased. I don't mind that to a point, but I'm hoping that the next in the series has less perambulating and more psychology. I'd like the next one to build on this promising beginning by being better than okay.
No comments:
Post a Comment