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All the Birds in the Sky (All the Birds in the Sky, #1)
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Could be 4.5 stars maybe, even 5 for someone who was more into this kind of thing.
Of course the complicated part there is, what kind of thing is this?
* Debut novel, with the expected overgrowth of random ideas that could be awesome in a separate book.
* Puppy love.
* Apocalypse.
* Magic vs. Technology (the magic system could use a bit more detail, the tech system, if that is even a thing could also (where did the 2 second time machines schematics come from?)
* Lovely writing
Did I mention that Technology here feels more like a separate school of magic than what we IRL understand as technology? In some other book (Wearing the cape, maybe?) I read about a sort of superheros/supervillains called "Verne" who were able to create random "technological" gizmos and materials that despite looking science-based were in fact totally impossible for normal people to reproduce. That's how some of the "tech" things in this book appear to work, and I think it makes the book slightly more interesting to me: it's a book about a war between two magical factions, where one of the factions doesn't know what they do is magic.
All in all, very solid, entertaining book.
Of course the complicated part there is, what kind of thing is this?
* Debut novel, with the expected overgrowth of random ideas that could be awesome in a separate book.
* Puppy love.
* Apocalypse.
* Magic vs. Technology (the magic system could use a bit more detail, the tech system, if that is even a thing could also (where did the 2 second time machines schematics come from?)
* Lovely writing
Did I mention that Technology here feels more like a separate school of magic than what we IRL understand as technology? In some other book (Wearing the cape, maybe?) I read about a sort of superheros/supervillains called "Verne" who were able to create random "technological" gizmos and materials that despite looking science-based were in fact totally impossible for normal people to reproduce. That's how some of the "tech" things in this book appear to work, and I think it makes the book slightly more interesting to me: it's a book about a war between two magical factions, where one of the factions doesn't know what they do is magic.
All in all, very solid, entertaining book.
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January 26, 2016
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