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bbabyok's review against another edition
4.0
Cool world building and interesting characters. I didn't realize that it would end on a cliffhanger and I would need to read more.
elusivity's review against another edition
2.0
Basic but serviceable plot, basic but serviceable characters, written in such a way as to maximize emotional reaction. Crude effort, but effective. The author repeatedly sets up a character, described with over-wrought prose as noble or kind or carefree or whatever self-possessed quality, and thereafter 180s them to utter hopelessness and helplessness. Characters are so cardboard that they do not come off as real people, but simply convenient objects for the plot to hang on. Women existed to be threatened with real or actual rape, graphically described. Men existed to be beaten, have pieces of their body hacked off or various other parts crushed or severed. There is a real relish in describing degradation throughout this novel.. Nothing worthwhile or spiritually redeeming exists in this world.
Not a typical fantasy novel, but one tightly merged with the nihilism of the horror genre. Read if this doesn't put you off.
Not a typical fantasy novel, but one tightly merged with the nihilism of the horror genre. Read if this doesn't put you off.
elusivity's review
2.0
Basic but serviceable plot, basic but serviceable characters, written in such a way as to maximize emotional reaction. Crude effort, but effective. The author repeatedly sets up a character, described with over-wrought prose as noble or kind or carefree or whatever self-possessed quality, and thereafter 180s them to utter hopelessness and helplessness. Characters are so cardboard that they do not come off as real people, but simply convenient objects for the plot to hang on. Women existed to be threatened with real or actual rape, graphically described. Men existed to be beaten, have pieces of their body hacked off or various other parts crushed or severed. There is a real relish in describing degradation throughout this novel.. Nothing worthwhile or spiritually redeeming exists in this world.
Not a typical fantasy novel, but one tightly merged with the nihilism of the horror genre. Read if this doesn't put you off.
Not a typical fantasy novel, but one tightly merged with the nihilism of the horror genre. Read if this doesn't put you off.
grimread's review
2.0
Not really worth the time and it ends in a cliff-hanger, off course. The characters have no depth and there is no development in their personality. Just when you thought, oh so he is like that, you get a completely different reaction to a situation by that same character, destroying all the interest that you've build up of him/her.
For some one who likes steampunk and vampires this book might seem the perfect combination but it leaves you disappointed and empty-handed as it does not really deliver what you hope.
For some one who likes steampunk and vampires this book might seem the perfect combination but it leaves you disappointed and empty-handed as it does not really deliver what you hope.
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