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Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
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My reaction to this book:
70% Really? But nothing has really happened!
85% This is really quite boring
87% Oh God, go away
90% Maybe I should DNF?
95% Somebody shoot me before I have to finish this
99% There's a freaking EPILOGUE?!?! I won't survive...
Well clearly I survived, but I do have to say that it takes a special book to turn steampunk and zombies into boredom. And I can't even imagine making 90% and DNFing. Until now.
Anyway, I found the story boring and predictable and I didn't like the alternating mother/son chapters. I've been looking forward to this one for a long time, too. You just never know.
70% Really? But nothing has really happened!
85% This is really quite boring
87% Oh God, go away
90% Maybe I should DNF?
95% Somebody shoot me before I have to finish this
99% There's a freaking EPILOGUE?!?! I won't survive...
Well clearly I survived, but I do have to say that it takes a special book to turn steampunk and zombies into boredom. And I can't even imagine making 90% and DNFing. Until now.
Anyway, I found the story boring and predictable and I didn't like the alternating mother/son chapters. I've been looking forward to this one for a long time, too. You just never know.
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Reading Progress
October 22, 2014
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October 22, 2014
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to-read
January 28, 2016
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Started Reading
January 28, 2016
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January 28, 2016
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January 29, 2016
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"Swackhammer may be one of the coolest names ever. Especially for Steam punk."
January 30, 2016
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January 31, 2016
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January 31, 2016
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Finished Reading
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Jan 31, 2016 10:16PM
Oh dear. But honestly, yes, overrated.
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Yes, the next one is much better.
Ok, so this is a zombie book I should not read then?
TBH, I'd start at Dreadnought if I was recommending this series to people. An alternate civil war that went on long enough for both sides to develop war-trains and diesel-powered mechs, and the social changes that a 15+ year war in 1800s North America is all really well-realized. Priest suggests that the South would have freed their slaves to help fight the war in that sort of dragged out conflict.
However, I think Karen Memory is very similar to this and far superior. Why bother reading a series that doesn't do a similar premise justice and is nowhere near as fun?
Hmm. I've been meaning to read this too; might move it a little further down the list. I'm not sure I'd like the sequel, either - it'd have to be a truly completely different world for me to buy the South freeing the slaves.
Thanks Lyn :) I agree with Lindsay that Karen Memory is a far better book. They can't even be compared because it would leave Boneshaker at about a tenth of a star. But they are both steampunk Seattle. I made the same comparison yesterday to Chris. I did like the zombies in this, it was just the plot that was boring.
I have never understood how this particular book made it on so many to-read lists. I had a less strong reaction to the boredom but bored I was.
Yes Karen Memory was GREAT. Totally recommend that one even for people not really into steampunk.
Ahh this book has such a great cover which is why I think I've been bamboozled into thinking it was awesome.
I think it's the cover that gets it on the to-read lists :)
A fair amount of my dislike was the mother--teenage son dynamic. Interesting to see so much didn't work for other people. I was underwhelmed enough that I won't bother trying her other books in the world.
Yes, the mother/son thing was not well developed. I think it read like half YA and half adult book and it was just weird. But there was a lack of depth to the relationship. I think that was where the book flopped.
Thanks :) It was fun to write.
Why, oh why are good steampunks so hard to find?
