The Toymakers

by Robert Dinsdale

time.

It's not that I'm not liking this, is that, knowing that this was published in 2018 the prose imitating the old writing style of books writen a century ago is really jarring to me. It's the same issue I had with Hook: dead to rights. You know how much I dislikeinsincerity.There's a diference between characters talking like people did back then and another for the author to do it himself in his prose. I don't like it.

LEIGH-ON-SEA TO LONDON, NOVEMBER 1906 Running away was not like it was in the stories. People did not try and stop you. They did not give chase. The thing people didn’t understand was that you had to decide what you were running away from. Most of the time it wasn’t mothers or fathers or monsters or villains; most of the time you were running away from that little voice inside your head, the one telling you to stay where you are, that everything will turn out all right.

brilliant

rotten hound,

why are you so mean to the poor thing? it was your fault he got lost!

orgies

DON'T USE THIS WORD IN THE SAME SENTENCE AS CHILDREN! what the fuck is wrong with you?

its wings and the thin rustle of confetti snow began to fall down.

I just realized this author can't describe human emotions. He can describe objects and sometimes places in detail, but he can't make people act or talk like people.

MANY YEARS LATER …

FUCK YOU!

Emporium with me now. You have been away too long …

fuck you. i hate you.

‘What do you think, little thing?’ he said, eyeing the Imperial Kapitan. ‘I’m going to have to talk to you. If I don’t talk to somebody, I’m bound to go mad, and you’re the only one there is …’

I think this is supposed to be a call back to when Cathy did this, talking to her baby but fuck you, it comes accross as copy pasting.

mine too was the terrible thought that entered his mind. ‘He has a wife.’ And Cathy, Cathy should have been …

yeah, I don't understand why the author is hellbend on making Emil miserable. I thought he was going to be the main guy at first, a sympathetic hero we would root for, finally overcoming his brother. But no, the author liked Kaspar a bit too much.

Do I think so little of Emil to deny him even that?

you and the author both. he hates that poor soul.

I don’t want it to go back. I want it to go forward. I want you to be fit and fighting strong, and for the Long War to make your fortune … because your children –’ she smiled,

why do people dislike Nina? she's great to Emil

beneath

on a nurse?

But now

I can't believe Cathy was on Kaspar's side on this way. She had no right to allow Emil's suffering like this. Wasnt one brother hurting bad enought? Cathy hates Emil. Everyone hates Emil because the author does, and does everything he can to see him dispair. I want Emil to kill Kaspar, if he did I would applaud.

would end: in a dancing inferno, patchwork

If this is is supposed to be foreshadowing, number one is terribly done, and number two, I wish. Let this fucking thing burn to ground, so Emil can be free.

Something of which my brother is in dire need.’

Fuck you, Kasper.

Emil shook his boys until they awoke and, rubbing blearily at their eyes, they clambered out of the bed where their mother still slept. ‘What are we doing, Papa?’ one of them asked. ‘It’s a midnight adventure!’ the other announced. But, ‘A midnight raid,’

time skip?

Daemon Lord who sent us out to fight the Long War. Daemon Lord who set us against each other, who forced us to kill our fellows. Daemon Lord

see? this is the author doing it again...destroying Emil for no reason. This is the author making Emil's creations turn against him, is not the plot, is the motherfucker author. I hate him.

‘Chichikov,

wow....such big reveal /s

children.

they don't even have names. Fuck you, author.

The thing people didn’t understand was that you had to decide what you were running away from.

copy paste, why dont' you?