Review: Doubleshot Reviews book review
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2011
Railroad Volume One: Rodger Dodger is one of my first forays into the world of steampunk and if this is what steampunk is all about I LOVE IT! The characters created by Tonia Brown are fantastical and vivid...highly entertaining. Rodger Dodger is exactly the type of person you think of when you read his name, but maybe with a slight more compassionate quality then his name might suggest.  Professor Hieronymus J. Dittmeyer, well, just his name is loveable, but he's that quirky professor you wish you had in college, but never was lucky enough to end up in his class. Highly intelligent, kind and considerate to a fault, but with that eccentric quality that makes him just plain likeable. Ched, the engineer is right up my alley, too for reasons that you will have to read to determine. Rodger, Dittmeyer and Ched are not the only characters in Railroad Volume One: Rodger Dodger, there are other lifeforms in this tale of the odd and amusing, but the Sleipnir could be viewed upon as a character. She is a magnificant wonder of the modern world and is able to run without tracks to wherever location the Professor deems worthy of an adventure.Set in the Old West, Railroad Volume One: Rodger Dodger has that feel of ever present danger of a gunfight just about to happen as a tumbling tumbleweed rolls past. The combination of the Old West with it's saloons, steam trains, Colt revolvers and the out of this world abilities of the Sleipnir and her crew make this a highly imaginative and entertaining read. Seriously, I could not put it down and I CANNOT WAIT for Volume Two...did you hear that, Mrs. Brown? ;)Obviously, I definitely recommend Railroad Volume One: Rodger Dodger to purchase and read multiple times.