A review by emilybryk
The Book of Esther by Emily Barton

2.0

This is really a book that suffers from not knowing what it wants to be. Is it a wildly inventive steampunk novel? Is it a meditation on consciousness and free will? Are there really werewolves going on here? Can I only write this in questions?

And if I can indeed only write in questions here, did anyone except me notice that, the entire rest of the world seems to not be as constricted by the aforementioned wildly-inventive-steampunk, and therefore that there was a pretty massive military imbalance going on? No?