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adselg 's review for:
The Pocket Factory
by Alexander Graeme
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Okay so first of all, Mr Graeme - please tell me a sequel is coming out to this book?! The cliffhanger has made me emotionally unstable!
I said in my review for Sun cream for bees, it was nearly a 5/5 and could be retroactively made so depending on this book. Well both are a solid 5/5 but I need more or I will have to mark them lower as there’s so much left unsaid.
What The Pocket Factory does so well is make all the stories feel cared about and have interesting characters. What this book also does so well is make the protagonist feel as we’ve ventured with them for years, not just over two books. Once again Theo and Dimia are my standouts but I also loved Beeolt, the last chapter of his was some of my favourite reading.
The two main antagonists are also brilliant. You have Andar who from my view is a sympathetic antagonist, battling right vs wrong and trying to move away from legacies. Then Vaeril is pure evil and when you think there’s a chance of redemption, it’s taken.
This series is wonderful, with a lot of thought and care to its lore without simplifying it for the reader but adding enough mystique that you clamour for more. On that note, I need to know how this all ends because there’s so much left to discover!
I said in my review for Sun cream for bees, it was nearly a 5/5 and could be retroactively made so depending on this book. Well both are a solid 5/5 but I need more or I will have to mark them lower as there’s so much left unsaid.
What The Pocket Factory does so well is make all the stories feel cared about and have interesting characters. What this book also does so well is make the protagonist feel as we’ve ventured with them for years, not just over two books. Once again Theo and Dimia are my standouts but I also loved Beeolt, the last chapter of his was some of my favourite reading.
The two main antagonists are also brilliant. You have Andar who from my view is a sympathetic antagonist, battling right vs wrong and trying to move away from legacies. Then Vaeril is pure evil and when you think there’s a chance of redemption, it’s taken.
This series is wonderful, with a lot of thought and care to its lore without simplifying it for the reader but adding enough mystique that you clamour for more. On that note, I need to know how this all ends because there’s so much left to discover!