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A review by nenya_kanadka
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
4.0
The plot in this one wasn't very strong in the latter half, but I didn't really care because I liked the characters so much. Madame Damnable, Miss Francina (my favourite!), Priya and Karen and Marshall Reeves and Crispin--I just wanted them to be happy and take care of each other and keep in touch, and in the end they did.
The villain reveal didn't surprise me, but it crept up on me with a slowly dawning sense of horror, so that part was pretty well done. The Seattle Underground, I mean the Rapid City Underground, was really good but I felt maybe there could have been more detail on the steampunk/mad scientist front. (I'm still confused about the steampunk sewing machine, for example.)
But I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would rec.
The villain reveal didn't surprise me, but it crept up on me with a slowly dawning sense of horror, so that part was pretty well done. The Seattle Underground, I mean the Rapid City Underground, was really good but I felt maybe there could have been more detail on the steampunk/mad scientist front. (I'm still confused about the steampunk sewing machine, for example.)
But I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would rec.