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doughastings 's review for:
The Clockwork Dynasty
by Daniel H. Wilson
A very solid fantasy/sci fi book about sentient automatons. Is that an oxymoron? Anyway, the writing is quite good-I am claustrophobic, and there is a scene in a cave that had me almost hyperventilating! Even just typing this makes my shoulders hunch..- I enjoyed the one current alternating with one historical chapter format, the characters were pretty well drawn. I’m married to someone as stubborn as Peter, so, someone that pigheaded is in fact, realistic. Not that *I’d* know anything about that.
And the story definitely picked up for me in the second half and I had to finish to see what was going on. The tension of the timelines drawing together was really well done.
But it isn’t four stars for me since it isn’t really about anything. It’s just a good story. Which is still good, and kind of what I was looking for. It was a nice balm as I try to finish ‘parable of the sower’, which is about too much. Way too much. :(
And there’s nothing wrong with that, please, bring on more well written three star books that just tell good tales! I need them if I’m going to finish the heavy books.
I listened to this book, and enjoyed it. I can be a bit fussy about audiobooks, but this was a good one.
There are a couple of quibbles, why did Elena leave Peter? And they are all so brilliant and hundreds of years old but June figure things out in two days? But maybe it’s like medicine, sometimes a second opinion, fresh eyes, is what you need. Why does Peter not figure out sooner killing all these people isn’t working for him and is, you know, evil. But they’re quibbles, they didn’t interfere with my enjoyment of the story.
And I’m actually glad they left the origins of the avtomats unknown, not for a sequel, but I’d rather have things left a bit murky and mysterious, than have an explanation that doesn’t ring true.
And the story definitely picked up for me in the second half and I had to finish to see what was going on. The tension of the timelines drawing together was really well done.
But it isn’t four stars for me since it isn’t really about anything. It’s just a good story. Which is still good, and kind of what I was looking for. It was a nice balm as I try to finish ‘parable of the sower’, which is about too much. Way too much. :(
And there’s nothing wrong with that, please, bring on more well written three star books that just tell good tales! I need them if I’m going to finish the heavy books.
I listened to this book, and enjoyed it. I can be a bit fussy about audiobooks, but this was a good one.
There are a couple of quibbles, why did Elena leave Peter? And they are all so brilliant and hundreds of years old but June figure things out in two days? But maybe it’s like medicine, sometimes a second opinion, fresh eyes, is what you need. Why does Peter not figure out sooner killing all these people isn’t working for him and is, you know, evil. But they’re quibbles, they didn’t interfere with my enjoyment of the story.
And I’m actually glad they left the origins of the avtomats unknown, not for a sequel, but I’d rather have things left a bit murky and mysterious, than have an explanation that doesn’t ring true.