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While the story follows a fairly traditional line - orphan is sent into world to be apprenticed, encounters strange creatures and adventures along the way - the world is so completely fresh and strange that you feel as though anything could happen and anything could exist. This cover really doesn't do the story justice, but if you love complex and detailed fantasy worlds, complete with maps and glossaries and calendars and diagrams of ships and clothing, there's certainly enough here to keep you
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Inventive and engaging language and characters in a most absorbing story.
I do need to not read any more steampunk for awhile, though.
I do need to not read any more steampunk for awhile, though.
The story was all right, if a little predictable. The author was certainly wrapped up in world-building, if the maps and appendices are anything to go by; pity that didn't come through as well in the main body of the text. A rather abrupt ending to this first in a series (followed by 100 pages of glossary, maps, and random 'facts').
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Jan 29, 2009
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
marked it as to-read
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Jan 19, 2022
Marcus
marked it as to-read
