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Wonderful example of the "unreliable narrator", and in the first person, no less! The twists at the end may take some kids aback, but it's delightful. And the two follow-up books, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia, are also very good. ]]>
Overall, Lois McMaster Bujold is one of my favorite authors, & whose books I have no hesitation buying in hardback the day they come out. She is talented and her books are uniformly superb.
With this one exception.
In fairness, this was her first fantasy novel, and I don't think she had a full handle on the genre yet. The bulk of her work was Science Fiction in her early years, and has been mostly Fantasy the last 7 or 8 years.
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A wonderful start to a delightful series. This first volume is in black & white, and, aesthetically speaking, I think it fits the tone of the series better than the later color volumes (not that they aren't gorgeous in their own rights). It's a "Gaslamp Fantasy", a steampunk comic-- a vision of the world in a psuedo-Victorian era, where mad scientists (called Sparks) rule the world. And our erstwhile Heroine, Agatha, is a Spark, all unbeknownst to herself. I've loved Foglio's work for years. You can read the entire series on-line if you wish- www.girlgeniusonline.com. ]]>