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jaylake's newest "Escapement" and I had an epiphany about the book as I was stepping into the shower yesterday.Escapement is "The Wizard of Oz".
The analogy isn't perfect, but there's a girl that goes searching for her hearts desire and ends up wishing she were back home and a Tin (well Brass) man. It's close enough to amuse the hell out of me.
The analogy isn't perfect, but there's a girl that goes searching for her hearts desire and ends up wishing she were back home and a Tin (well Brass) man. It's close enough to amuse the hell out of me.
Speaking of "Escapement", I like it a lot! Better by bounds that "Mainspring" I would say. The reason I would say that is that the two things that bothered me about "Mainspring" have been changed in this book. First the protag in MS seemed very passive for most of the book. Second in MS we got to see a ton of the universe but from a very long distance. Protag is flying over battles between the English and clockwork monsters, flying over fabulous and exotic cities etc. In this book our protags are active and thinking even if things are outside their control for the moment, and you get to walk through the cities and see, talk to and fight the monsters.
July 10 2008, 22:02:44 UTC 3 years ago
[here via Google Blog Search]
July 11 2008, 15:10:57 UTC 3 years ago
Plus there's this rockin' troglodyte queen...