A short thrilling adventure full of mystery. I highly recommend this prequel but unfortunately the same brilliance didn't go on into the next installment of this series.
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NegativeCurvature quoted The Strange Case of Finley Jayne by Kady Cross (The Steampunk Chronicles, #0)
It was deadly, but at least it wasn’t one of his fancy inventions.
— The Strange Case of Finley Jayne by Kady Cross (The Steampunk Chronicles, #0) (87%)
NegativeCurvature reviewed The Strange Case of Finley Jayne by Kady Cross (The Steampunk Chronicles, #0)
NegativeCurvature reviewed Black Mercury by Charlotte E. English (The Drifting Isle Chronicles)
A fast paced adventure in a cool steam-industrial town
4 stars
The story starts up a little slow but suddenly things start happening, and a real adventure starts. It felt like at about the same time the characters came alive as well. Although the first chapters weren't all that promising, I ended up enjoying this thoroughly.
The Drifting Isle Chronicles is a shared steampunk world, where multiple authors have written their books. This was my first encounter, and I'm looking forward to reading the others as well!
Not as good as the prequel
2 stars
Content warning Generic statement about the ending.
The short prequel "The Strange Case of Finley Jayne" was an exiting steampunk adventure, but unfortunately this didn't live up to the expectations.
Too much teenage love stories and superpowers.
The ending was quite dull too.
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NegativeCurvature reviewed A natural history of hell by Jeffrey Ford
NegativeCurvature rated Draykon: 4 stars
Draykon by Charlotte E. English (The Draykon Series)
Legends tell of creatures the size of houses, with wings as vast as the sails of great ships. Their scaled …
NegativeCurvature reviewed Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Adventure of random encounters
2 stars
The concept of humanity taking refuge in a metro in a post nuclear war world is truly interesting. However the story built into it was medicore at best. More or less random "plot twists".
NegativeCurvature rated The Picture of Dorian Gray: 5 stars
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted …
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NegativeCurvature reviewed Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Good book but notes are poorly linked
4 stars
The content is great but the notes are linked poorly (at least in the Kindle version). In the end there are plethora of helpful notes explaining ancient things, but they are only linked backwards. I.e. not from text to footnotes but from notes to text, making their discovery hard.
NegativeCurvature rated Meditations: 4 stars
NegativeCurvature rated 1984: 5 stars
1984 by George Orwell
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were …
NegativeCurvature rated Animal farm: 5 stars
Animal farm by George Orwell
Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. …