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A review by dbarcelon
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist
3.0
This book would have been more exciting if it were a third shorter. This Victorian thriller-mystery-adventure is told from the points of view of three unlikely allies, an English country girl(Celeste Temple), an assassin (Cardinal Chang), and a German doctor (Abelard Svenson). Each accidentally find themselves in the midst of a complex conspiracy that involves exploiting basic human desires and alchemy to gain absolute wealth and power. In their curiosity to find out more about the mysteries they chance upon, they end up joining forces to fight something more terrible than they had imagined.
I loved the plot, but the author spent far too much time on the details. Sometimes I felt like I was reading stage directions since each action was meticulously chronicled in the story. Halfway through the book, I found myself skimming through these bits because I really wanted to find out what happened next, but the pace of the writing wasn't keeping up with the building excitement of the story as a whole. You definitely need patience to get through this book.
I must say though, I think this is one of those stories that would work really well as a movie.
I loved the plot, but the author spent far too much time on the details. Sometimes I felt like I was reading stage directions since each action was meticulously chronicled in the story. Halfway through the book, I found myself skimming through these bits because I really wanted to find out what happened next, but the pace of the writing wasn't keeping up with the building excitement of the story as a whole. You definitely need patience to get through this book.
I must say though, I think this is one of those stories that would work really well as a movie.