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I have been madly excited for this book since I saw the cover art months and months ago, and it did not disappoint!
This book was so much more than I was expecting! I had been looking forward to a Steampunked romp with some wonderful creatures, and what I got instead was this HUGE world, full of beauty and terror, joy and sadness, good and evil, and probably the best Start-to-Byron pay-off in the history of literature (plus, I just have to find a way to make "Saint Darwin and all of his apes!" an expression that everyone uses when things go awry).
Trent pulls out all the stops, possibly inventing a few as she went along, and the result is a fabulous story with great characters and a tremendous world for them to stand on. I was utterly captivated by the dark side of the Steampunk world, where science ran amok and complete destruction is just around the corner. Plus the invented religion was intriguing and scarily possible and...yes. I loved this book a lot.
9/10 for being something NEW in the steampunk genre, for having a great heroine and supporting characters, for secret societies, for some truly original Saints, and for completely surpassing my expectations.
This book was so much more than I was expecting! I had been looking forward to a Steampunked romp with some wonderful creatures, and what I got instead was this HUGE world, full of beauty and terror, joy and sadness, good and evil, and probably the best Start-to-Byron pay-off in the history of literature (plus, I just have to find a way to make "Saint Darwin and all of his apes!" an expression that everyone uses when things go awry).
Trent pulls out all the stops, possibly inventing a few as she went along, and the result is a fabulous story with great characters and a tremendous world for them to stand on. I was utterly captivated by the dark side of the Steampunk world, where science ran amok and complete destruction is just around the corner. Plus the invented religion was intriguing and scarily possible and...yes. I loved this book a lot.
9/10 for being something NEW in the steampunk genre, for having a great heroine and supporting characters, for secret societies, for some truly original Saints, and for completely surpassing my expectations.
