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funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Spice: 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
Characters: waiting on the story about the manticore
A Fangtastic Friday
Terrible terrible writing but such a fun story. I'm considering putting in an application to work at Warts&Claws Inc. This was a whole bag of insanity to boot. I mean I already detest cubicle-culture but I might be willing to come in every other day for a meeting with ... ahem...the bosses .
Ah yes, what is an office without the drama? We have a merger, office squabbles and a crazy Vampire HR officer on the prowl. Cant say it's taking me back to my days of Marketing vs Corporate Affairs.petty rivalry because no one was in omega heat and losing their faculties on the daily.
Arthur can be my demon boss any day cause just woza, but that Inferna had me searching for a fan.
Characters: waiting on the story about the manticore
A Fangtastic Friday
Terrible terrible writing but such a fun story. I'm considering putting in an application to work at Warts&Claws Inc. This was a whole bag of insanity to boot. I mean I already detest cubicle-culture but I might be willing to come in every other day for a meeting with ... ahem...the bosses .
Ah yes, what is an office without the drama? We have a merger, office squabbles and a crazy Vampire HR officer on the prowl. Cant say it's taking me back to my days of Marketing vs Corporate Affairs.petty rivalry because no one was in omega heat and losing their faculties on the daily.
Arthur can be my demon boss any day cause just woza, but that Inferna had me searching for a fan.
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
All of that potential!
I mean despite a few issues, this book really should have done numbers. I'm about to go knock on some doors in an attempt to spread the "good word" on the "Iron assassin".... wait wait wait don't slam the door in my face. Hear me out.
So what's to like?
1. I love the very Steampunk essence that Ed Greenwood brings to this universe. His chief Tinkerer is Lord Tempest Straker.
2. The Iron Assassin, Bently Steelforce is my kind of weirdo assassin.
3. The overarching conspiracy had meaty potential
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Plot/Storyline: -1 Should have just stuck to the overarching conspiracy - the threat to Lord Lion. Everything that can possible happen in this story happens. Too many subplots
Characters: -1 I started to lose interest in the ever growing list of new characters showing up. It feels like Greenwood was setting up for a series but never followed through so what we have is an over saturation of characters.
Favorite scene: the conversation between Lord Straker and Lady whatsherface in the shed moments after the Iron Assassin barged in and petrified the poor spy-wannabe Lady. It was a very clever tete-a-tete.
Favorite Quote/Concept: Every man needs a confidant - even those sworn to secrecy (Hardcastle on his Bromance with Jack Straker / LordTempest)
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Punk Fantasy Books
I mean despite a few issues, this book really should have done numbers. I'm about to go knock on some doors in an attempt to spread the "good word" on the "Iron assassin".... wait wait wait don't slam the door in my face. Hear me out.
So what's to like?
1. I love the very Steampunk essence that Ed Greenwood brings to this universe. His chief Tinkerer is Lord Tempest Straker.
2. The Iron Assassin, Bently Steelforce is my kind of weirdo assassin.
3. The overarching conspiracy had meaty potential
**********************************************************************
Plot/Storyline: -1 Should have just stuck to the overarching conspiracy - the threat to Lord Lion. Everything that can possible happen in this story happens. Too many subplots
Characters: -1 I started to lose interest in the ever growing list of new characters showing up. It feels like Greenwood was setting up for a series but never followed through so what we have is an over saturation of characters.
Favorite scene: the conversation between Lord Straker and Lady whatsherface in the shed moments after the Iron Assassin barged in and petrified the poor spy-wannabe Lady. It was a very clever tete-a-tete.
Favorite Quote/Concept: Every man needs a confidant - even those sworn to secrecy (Hardcastle on his Bromance with Jack Straker / LordTempest)
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Punk Fantasy Books
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A book that made me go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole and do a deep dive on African Pagan Mythology, All the different ways to say Mixed-Race in Old-America and look up recipes for gumbo and beignets. The recipes are the ones that have remained bookmarked and I should like to make a mess in the kitchen attempting to make the delicious things.
The Black God's Drum is unexpected to say the least. Having almost zero Haitian Folklore Knowledge but thnks to that one visual album by Beyonce, I can say I have some vague recollection of African Gods and Goddesses pre-colonial/slavery era - I sound this to be truly different yet familiar. There is a God of the High Seas, there is some form of possession but by Gods and not ghosts - It's all so intoxicating. The New Orleans alternative history setting is really something else and I'm beginning to find myself looking for more New Orleans Gothic SF books thanks to this.
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Plot/Storyline: had me hooked from the moment she was scouting what sounded like Dirigible Airships in the sky looking for potential marks so she could stick her fingers in pockets and lift things.
Characters: Everyone seems so vibrant yet dark and a little dusty, so busy and loud and accented, so Classique and chic and crass and gothic and beautiful like the printer tones have been cranked up and they're leaking onto the page in a intricate design.
Favorite scene: Creeper knocks into a man wearing a black suit, wearing a skull mask a day before the Mardi Gras. There is something about this moment, it just sets this crackling sense of doom from the moment Goddess Oya sends a warning into Creeper's mind not to accept the stranger's help to stand up. Two things are clear, Oya has too much control over Creeper even though she thinks otherwise and Creep is not as free as she perceives herself to be.
Favorite Quote/Concept: not a quote but a concept: Drapeto Gas is horrifyingStoryGraph Challenge: 1800 books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Punk Fantasy Books
The Black God's Drum is unexpected to say the least. Having almost zero Haitian Folklore Knowledge but thnks to that one visual album by Beyonce, I can say I have some vague recollection of African Gods and Goddesses pre-colonial/slavery era - I sound this to be truly different yet familiar. There is a God of the High Seas, there is some form of possession but by Gods and not ghosts - It's all so intoxicating. The New Orleans alternative history setting is really something else and I'm beginning to find myself looking for more New Orleans Gothic SF books thanks to this.
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Plot/Storyline: had me hooked from the moment she was scouting what sounded like Dirigible Airships in the sky looking for potential marks so she could stick her fingers in pockets and lift things.
Characters: Everyone seems so vibrant yet dark and a little dusty, so busy and loud and accented, so Classique and chic and crass and gothic and beautiful like the printer tones have been cranked up and they're leaking onto the page in a intricate design.
Favorite scene: Creeper knocks into a man wearing a black suit, wearing a skull mask a day before the Mardi Gras. There is something about this moment, it just sets this crackling sense of doom from the moment Goddess Oya sends a warning into Creeper's mind not to accept the stranger's help to stand up. Two things are clear, Oya has too much control over Creeper even though she thinks otherwise and Creep is not as free as she perceives herself to be.
Favorite Quote/Concept: not a quote but a concept: Drapeto Gas is horrifyingStoryGraph Challenge: 1800 books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Punk Fantasy Books