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This is a strange book that took me a while to fall into. Anything recommended by Mary Robinette is something to be trusted, though. I started it, and let my attention slip into another book when it needed it, so I could easily return to this without it feeling like a chore.
By 30% or so, it didn't, and the rest was a race home. A peculiar book that's all the better for being so; if you read a lot, sometimes books become easy to expect what will happen next and sometimes that's fine - our minds ...more
By 30% or so, it didn't, and the rest was a race home. A peculiar book that's all the better for being so; if you read a lot, sometimes books become easy to expect what will happen next and sometimes that's fine - our minds ...more
At first I was wondering why this was shelved in the fantasy/science fiction section of my local library since it reads as a historical novel with mild steampunk elements, but as I read on, it became clearer (not going to say why since those are spoilers). This is not an easily categorizable novel which is one of the things I really like about it.
