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A carregar... The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (A Burton & Swinburne Adventure) (edição 2011)por Mark Hodder (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book answers a question that few readers have ever bothered to ask: just how many fantasy elements can you cram into a short steampunk novel, anyway? The answer? Quite a few! We have This book was about as crazy and fun as the first book. For anybody who read the first book and was annoyed that its science wasn’t very scientific, you’ll probably not want to bother with this one. If you enjoyed the first book, I think you’ll likely enjoy this one also. I enjoyed the first story a bit more, but this book has stronger camaraderie between the characters and I enjoyed that. I also really enjoyed the bit at the end which kind of explains all the fantasy elements. It doesn’t explain them in a scientific way of course, but it does explain them in an internally consistent way that I thought worked pretty well, and it tied together nicely with events from the first book. Like the first book, this one tells a complete story. There are just enough dangling threads to make it clear what the next book will be about, and I look forward to reading it. In this second installment of Pythonesque weirdness from Mark Hodder, in which a reimagined Richard Francis Burton and Algernon Swinburne protect the British Empire from threats based both on the occult and mad science, the ostensible issue is that of the Tichborne Claimant (based on an actual case of 19th-century impersonation) but that is only the screen for the real threat, of which I'll say no more; otherwise the fairies will come for me. Also, part of the reason I don't rate this novel a little higher is that while I like this kind of thing I know that there are quite a few people who are going to be put off by what Hodder is dishing out. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Not bad though, lots of action and cool steampunk devices, many characters from real history included along with an appendix at the end that talks about what those characters really were like or what they really did.
Squeezed this one in about 10 PM on Dec 31st to fit it into 2021. ( )