Review: A Good Start. Lots of Action - Adventure In An Intriguing Steam Punk World
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
I have mixed feelings about this book.I am going to start with my praise for the episode.This story is an action packed steam punk adventure. It reads quickly and kept me on the edge of my seat guessing how the characters would get out of one bind after another.The world in this book is rich with originality and intriguing gadgetry.Now for my grumbles:It was an enjoyable first segment, but there is literally zero plot resolution, as it ended in a cliffhanger. I strongly dislike cliffhangers. I feel that they are lazy and disrespectful to the readers to not finish a scene and leave the story hanging. And so I subtracted one star for that.The next issue that I had with this book was only with the characters.Having read this episode, I can not tell you the color of hair, skin tone, or eyes of any of the characters, because they were not provided by the author.Great detail was spent in explaining the clockwork devices and the settings are also richly described. So it seemed odd to me that the characters were left as blank canvases.While the scenes were being played out in my mind, each time we came to a character I found myself staring at a cloudy image. It was frustrating and that was the second star that I deducted from my rating.In conclusion, I found this episode to be a good start, yet I hope that these issues are addressed in future episodes