![]() ![]() Why? After finishing the book I still have no idea. Pages after pages are filled with words that don’t mean anything, words that don’t convey any information. How many pages are wasted on – “go there”, “where are we?”, “I’m the daughter of Maynard”? All of them. ![]() Instead, we get extensive worldbuilding of the utterly uninteresting world that barely resembles any connection to steampunk or gaslight fantasy with some of the dullest dialogue in genre literature. ![]() Character development or even a surface level study? No time for that. Turns out plot doesn’t matter in an action-adventure novel. The fact that it was pushed by Vandermeer and Wheaton combined with positive reviews from mainstream media should’ve been a red flag.Ī perfect premise – (A scientist, Russian Alaska, zombies, locked-down city) has been brutally butchered by the absolute lack of writing skill or storytelling craft. Every single time I fall for expensive marketing efforts (like Ruin of Kings). I know that rambling about an 11-year-old book is useless, but it begs for proper critique. ![]()
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