Review: slow
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2012
I am always sorry to have to admit I could not finish a book.This is well written, by the way. The author has this clear, neat, precise style where every word has meaning.The Venice-like setting is interesting as is the idea of a beginning of the industrial era technology (railways and gas lighting).Unfortunately it totally lacks pace. Or at least it has such a slow one that it drags. So much the worse because this is not the first of a serial but it is supposed to be a standalone.Characters are realistic and consistent. But they are cold. Distant. I looked at the main character as if through the window of a train carriage. I could not care for him.