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nevarrum 's review for:
The Clockwork Dynasty
by Daniel H. Wilson
This book was a ton of interesting ideas sprinkled through the story keeping it both surprising and interesting all the way through. The author really invests time in setting up the world of the avtomat and revealing it to you through the story. There were times reading this when I had real "No Way" moments and others when a slight twist took the concept in a direction I hadn't quite anticipated.
The story runs long at a nice pace and seldom slows down much and some of the action scenes fairly move it along even quicker often creating a just one more chapter! approach to reading it.
I quite like the characters and especially Pyotor & Elena as the main avtomat characters, the device of past/present chapters is a well used one and doesn't add or detract from the story. At times it would have been better I think to stick with either the current story or the back story a while longer but this is a minor niggle.
The ending feels open for future books but I feel it worked nicely as a stand alone novel.
The story runs long at a nice pace and seldom slows down much and some of the action scenes fairly move it along even quicker often creating a just one more chapter! approach to reading it.
I quite like the characters and especially Pyotor & Elena as the main avtomat characters, the device of past/present chapters is a well used one and doesn't add or detract from the story. At times it would have been better I think to stick with either the current story or the back story a while longer but this is a minor niggle.
The ending feels open for future books but I feel it worked nicely as a stand alone novel.