Category: Steampunk
Sparrow Falling — Gaie Sebold
While i rather enjoyed Shanghai Sparrow with it’s steampunk silliness and, also, the growth of Evvie, this book has immediately become unenjoyable with Evvie just turning into some kind of idiot who doesn’t want anyone else’s help or advice, even when she’s up to her neck in problems. It’s really like the Evvie we left off with at the end of Shanghai Sparrow has been replaced with some utter idiot who learned absolutely nothing from her earlier experiences.
I do believe this is the first book of Gaie’s that not only have i not liked, but just couldn’t continue reading it was annoying me that much. I gave it until 27% but it just kept on getting worse and i quit. I’ve got too many good books to read to waste my time on stuff like this.
But as i’ve said about other writers whose works i’ve totally enjoyed, at some point each is going to write a book that i just don’t like. This is that book for Gaie.
Ho hum!
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Shanghai Sparrow — Gaie Sebold
This began the final couple of Gaie’s books that i haven’t read.
Admittedly, i picked this up with a fair few preconceptions and had them all dashed rather quickly. The first thing is that i’ve put Gaie’s writing firmly in the fantasy-for-grown-ups genre, and this is anything but that.
So i was rather surprised to find myself reading some steampunk with a hint of fantasy aimed at teenage girls (at least that where i think it belongs). I was even more surprised to find myself quite enjoying it, being a 57 year old man. It’s very similar to Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina, so if you enjoy that kind of “silly” then i’m sure you’ll enjoy this kind of “silly”.
I’m certainly enjoying a bit of “silly” at the moment, so i’m diving straight into the second book in the series, Sparrow Falling for some more.
