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A review by pearlmorpho
Berlin Book One: City of Stones by Jason Lutes
4.0
After reading Jar of Fools my expectations for the first part of Lute's Berlin trilogy to be equally dull. I was happily surprised.
The beginning was slow, and the characters all looked the same, but if you can look past that, the story is really quite engaging. I have never read anything set in the Wiemar Republic era before, and it was incredibly depressing. The feeling of economic desolation did not help my current recession-y attitude. But, it was one heck of an emotional reaction, and I am going to request the next book on ILL because I really am invested in these characters (when I can tell who is who).
The beginning was slow, and the characters all looked the same, but if you can look past that, the story is really quite engaging. I have never read anything set in the Wiemar Republic era before, and it was incredibly depressing. The feeling of economic desolation did not help my current recession-y attitude. But, it was one heck of an emotional reaction, and I am going to request the next book on ILL because I really am invested in these characters (when I can tell who is who).