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A review by haleybeck
The Clockwork Ghost by Laura Ruby
3.0
Ok this was surprisingly better than the first one. Maybe like 2.75 stars. The first half was still pretty boring and slow. Then the seconds half got quick paced but it felt like when a kid comes up with a story and keeps throwing all these random things in that totally weren't there in the beginning.
We get some enemies in this one. We've got the animal perspective (weird). We might have time travel? Also, a creepy abandoned medical facility on an island. Honestly that's more scary than crime books I read. And we have many many more questions and no answers... so I guess I must read the third one.
I love Aunt Esther, she seems to have the answers to everything and be so extremely supportive. And Ono! He's basically Pickett in machine form. I love him.
I didn't like the racism (again) of pretty much only describing people by their skin color and the long digression of "evil white people colonizing America" that literally has nothing to do with the story. oh also the main character is constantly "cursing under her breath." If this author simply stuck to the actual storyline, she'd have a much better book.
We get some enemies in this one. We've got the animal perspective (weird). We might have time travel? Also, a creepy abandoned medical facility on an island. Honestly that's more scary than crime books I read. And we have many many more questions and no answers... so I guess I must read the third one.
I love Aunt Esther, she seems to have the answers to everything and be so extremely supportive. And Ono! He's basically Pickett in machine form. I love him.
I didn't like the racism (again) of pretty much only describing people by their skin color and the long digression of "evil white people colonizing America" that literally has nothing to do with the story. oh also the main character is constantly "cursing under her breath." If this author simply stuck to the actual storyline, she'd have a much better book.