A review by edgeworth
Lotus Blue by Cat Sparks

3.0

In theory this should have been right up my alley: a post-apocalyptic story set in an almost unrecognisable far-future Australia, with a new society living in the high-tech ruins of their ancestors; certainly Lotus Blue has a note of some of my favourite adventure novels of all time, Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series, with its centuries-old cyborg super-soldiers, reawakened orbital weapons and swashbuckling sandships. But it never really felt like it came together. Aside from having far too many characters and probably a hundred too many pages of padding, it lacks - ironically - a spark.