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A review by bhalpin
Engines of the Broken World by Jason Vanhee
5.0
What a delightfully weird, dark little book this is.
At the beginning, it seemed like one of the creepiest horror books I'd ever read. It then evolved into something bigger and weirder. I read the entire thing in a day, which I never do. Since the whole thing takes place in the span of a day or so and is limited to one location, it felt almost like a play to me, and I had to see it through as quickly as possible.
When there's so much YA literature that's either formulaic, didactic, or both, it's really refreshing to read a book that is resolutely neither. It's dark, sad, and ultimately ambiguous.
Not for everybody; definitely for me.
At the beginning, it seemed like one of the creepiest horror books I'd ever read. It then evolved into something bigger and weirder. I read the entire thing in a day, which I never do. Since the whole thing takes place in the span of a day or so and is limited to one location, it felt almost like a play to me, and I had to see it through as quickly as possible.
When there's so much YA literature that's either formulaic, didactic, or both, it's really refreshing to read a book that is resolutely neither. It's dark, sad, and ultimately ambiguous.
Not for everybody; definitely for me.