Scan barcode
A review by marlan
Clockwork Heart: Book One of the Clockwork Heart Trilogy by Dru Pagliassotti
3.0
My favorite of all the steampunk novels I've read. The world was carefully created without having the style-before-substance feeling found in a lot of steampunkery. In other books, it seems as though the exposition had to perform gymnastics in order to explain why everyone is wearing goggles. Here, the world makes a reasonable amount of sense, considering it's fantasy.
Unfortunately, the characters didn't have the depth I would have liked. The characters don't have significant arcs, ending pretty much as they started. The protagonist is enjoyable, but the other characters either feel interchangable or a little too similar to other YA books (one romantic lead bears a striking resemblance to Snape, both in appearance and personality).
The pacing is a bit off, the main climax occurring about 100 pages before the end, so it feels like a shorter book with a *very* long wrap-up.
Still, this was a light and enjoyable book. The use of early computers (with punch cards!) added an interesting element. Worth checking out if this flavor of fantasy is your thing.
Unfortunately, the characters didn't have the depth I would have liked. The characters don't have significant arcs, ending pretty much as they started. The protagonist is enjoyable, but the other characters either feel interchangable or a little too similar to other YA books (one romantic lead bears a striking resemblance to Snape, both in appearance and personality).
The pacing is a bit off, the main climax occurring about 100 pages before the end, so it feels like a shorter book with a *very* long wrap-up.
Still, this was a light and enjoyable book. The use of early computers (with punch cards!) added an interesting element. Worth checking out if this flavor of fantasy is your thing.