The Wonder Engine - BookWyrm@ThePit

paperback, 364 páginas

Publicado el 2 de julio de 2018 por Argyll Productions.

ISBN:: 978-1-61450-442-9

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Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. Give them weapons, carnivorous tattoos, and each other. Point them at the enemy.

What could possibly go wrong?

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mikerickson@bookwyrm.social reseñó The Wonder Engine de T. Kingfisher (Clocktaur War, #2)

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As I mentioned in my review of The Clockwork Boys, these two books were so closely tied together (and comparatively short for the genre) that I wondered why this story was split into two books at all. But it was, so here we are.

So the first half of our party's suicide mission - navigating through an active warzone between two dangerous armies - was completely sidestepped at the end of the first book through magic shenanigans. Okay, so we get to the rival city they're meant to infiltrate and we begin phase two of the suicide mission, but the stakes still feel oddly low? And I'm only just realizing now in my attempt to explain this book that the only obvious character that can act as an antagonist... doesn't have anything to do with the central ~suicide mission~ and mostly just has a personal vendetta solely against one of …

As I mentioned in my review of The Clockwork Boys, these two books were so closely tied together (and comparatively short for the genre) that I wondered why this story was split into two books at all. But it was, so here we are.

So the first half of our party's suicide mission - navigating through an active warzone between two dangerous armies - was completely sidestepped at the end of the first book through magic shenanigans. Okay, so we get to the rival city they're meant to infiltrate and we begin phase two of the suicide mission, but the stakes still feel oddly low? And I'm only just realizing now in my attempt to explain this book that the only obvious character that can act as an antagonist... doesn't have anything to do with the central ~suicide mission~ and mostly just has a personal vendetta solely against one of the two POV protagonists.

The romance feels forced, plotlines are abandoned, and the dialogue isn't great. This is a very paint-by-the-numbers trope fest that does nothing I haven't seen done before. However, I have seen it done worse and this book (these books?) met my admittedly low expectations, so I can't really claim to be disappointed in this case.