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vinayvasan 's review for:
Steal the Sky
by Megan E. O'Keefe
A very difficult book to review and rate. The author starts the book almost in media res. The characters are fully developed and you are dumped right in the middle of these characters, characters who share a fair bit of history and an overall setting that also bears scars of the past and a barely concealed animosity and fear towards what the future represents.
Into this cauldron step our leading pair, a pair of crooks, looking for a ride out from a city that is on the edge given a high profile murder and the presence of a ruthless bloodthirsty commodore who wants to win an election to take over the city.
On first observation, they seems to be a riff on Locke and Jean given the camaraderie, bond and humor they share but thats kind of where the book diverges from Lynch's effort and where my fundamental issue with the book lies. The book quite didnt make up its mind of what it wants to be, whether it wants characters to be quippy and bantery or whether it wants to be a dark book and this results in a fair bit of inconsistency in the tone of the book, which nonetheless manages to super spiffy and pacey. Definitely is a promising start and given the hints of the world-building and repercussions of the actions of this book, book 2 should be worth waiting for
Into this cauldron step our leading pair, a pair of crooks, looking for a ride out from a city that is on the edge given a high profile murder and the presence of a ruthless bloodthirsty commodore who wants to win an election to take over the city.
On first observation, they seems to be a riff on Locke and Jean given the camaraderie, bond and humor they share but thats kind of where the book diverges from Lynch's effort and where my fundamental issue with the book lies. The book quite didnt make up its mind of what it wants to be, whether it wants characters to be quippy and bantery or whether it wants to be a dark book and this results in a fair bit of inconsistency in the tone of the book, which nonetheless manages to super spiffy and pacey. Definitely is a promising start and given the hints of the world-building and repercussions of the actions of this book, book 2 should be worth waiting for