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sanabanana 's review for:
Worldshaker
by Richard Harland
Rating: 2.5 stars
Boy this book took me ages to read, and it feels great having finished it. My thoughts:
~The story took place in such a rich steampunk centric sort of setting with juggernauts and steam engines and tailcoats and was a lovely mash of traditional and technological which is fabulous.
~However the things that let me down was the characters. The characters I did like were barely in the story. Col was just such a bland character and because the story was told through his voice I was just constantly bored with his vanilla brain.
~The book has so much potential, I absolutely LOVE steampunk and the setting was wonderful but
I couldn't get into it, or frankly, care about the characters much.
~It was also massively predictable, so the exciting bits just weren't exciting, it was a massive let down.
~One thing i did love, however, was the weaving of the history of the juggernaut and its backstory with our history. It was done really well and was quite interesting with how it was constructed.
~Towards the end, however, the pace of the story did pick up and I did enjoy myself. I feel like younger Sana would have definitely loved the whole story. If I had read the story, say about 5 to 6 years ago, I would have DEFINITELY rated it much higher.
Boy this book took me ages to read, and it feels great having finished it. My thoughts:
~The story took place in such a rich steampunk centric sort of setting with juggernauts and steam engines and tailcoats and was a lovely mash of traditional and technological which is fabulous.
~However the things that let me down was the characters. The characters I did like were barely in the story. Col was just such a bland character and because the story was told through his voice I was just constantly bored with his vanilla brain.
~The book has so much potential, I absolutely LOVE steampunk and the setting was wonderful but
I couldn't get into it, or frankly, care about the characters much.
~It was also massively predictable, so the exciting bits just weren't exciting, it was a massive let down.
~One thing i did love, however, was the weaving of the history of the juggernaut and its backstory with our history. It was done really well and was quite interesting with how it was constructed.
~Towards the end, however, the pace of the story did pick up and I did enjoy myself. I feel like younger Sana would have definitely loved the whole story. If I had read the story, say about 5 to 6 years ago, I would have DEFINITELY rated it much higher.