Review: A wonderful creation.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2014
My first read by Keith Deininger, and a great one to begin with, I think. It's a cracking tale, full of invention and originality. Felt a little like Mieville's Railsea, maybe, but perhaps not as lyrical. He strikes me as a great fantasist, and like others who've struck a chord with me (Lebbon, maybe, or even Gaiman) there's more to this than meets the eye. And, like those writers, I think Deininger does what good fantasist do - shines a light back on us through their fiction, whether it's surreal, or absurd, or set within the vastness of Deininger's steampunk machine. It's thought-provoking, enjoyable, extremely well written. In short, I enjoyed this an awful lot.Cheers.