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Fantastic

Revisado: 07-18-21

If I could give this audio production a 7/5 stars, I would! This is an amazing story. The pacing is good, the inside jokes are good, the characters are vivid and real - this seems like a thing that could actually have happened, and that's fantastic. I LOVE IT.

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Tragic Orphan Smorgasbord

Revisado: 07-18-21

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book.

When I went in, I was expecting either a very narrow story about a girl who had a strange relationship with nighttime celestial bodies, or an exposition-heavy fairytale-style rendition of one of several stories about a princess that either is the moon or lives on the moon.

It was neither.

Instead I got a very well fleshed-out set of characters, each with their own backstories (although after a while there are only so many variations on "lost my parents at a tragically young age" that one can come up with) and character arcs. The ending was a bit formulaic, but I found it satisfying. It might have been done with a bit more punch than it was, but I was not upset with the ending, so I'm happy to leave it as it is.

All in all, I think this is a book I will happily come back to and reread in the future.

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Not Believable, but Fun

Revisado: 07-18-21

This one was surprisingly enjoyable, and even though it strained my suspension of disbelief at times, the story was fun. :)
I also really appreciated that the narrator was intimately familiar with the New Orleans and Cajun accents. No awkward fumbling or obvious flubs.

I'll file this one in "Smart Kids Fiction" with books like the Artemis Fowl and Half-Moon series.

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Amazing Dialogue, Lyrical Description

Revisado: 07-18-21

"What's a halberd?"
"If a spear and an ax had babies, they would be halberds. It's a poky-poky weapon that asks people taller than you to stay back, please."

Part of me says this book would make an awesome movie. The narrative voice is so vividly visual and its rhythm and pacing almost lyrical in places.
But then the rest of me reminds me that no illustrator would be able to reliably capture all those wonderful images, and the movie would probably turn out to be a complete bust, or at least a disappointed.

And I am again convinced that when I go to the movies, it should be for a movie, not for a book on screen.

This book is a blend of a classic kid thief story and clockwork magic, featuring found family and creative problem solving. Definitely worth a read if you like the sound of that. :)

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Fun, but Flawed

Revisado: 07-18-21

It's a really fun story and I liked the doubled angle of the little girl and her grandma's tales.

But though some characters were said to have accents, their vocabulary didn't show it, and some details came up incorrectly, like the sun setting into the ocean on the east coast, or coral growing at a depth sufficient to dim the sunlight.
A little research and forethought might have sidestepped those mistakes.

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Great Characters

Revisado: 07-18-21

I love this character, I love this world. Her determination, sense of ethics, and shyness are all perfect. ♥️
There is more crude language than I like, but very well used.

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Surprisingly Good

Revisado: 04-24-21

A surprisingly good integration of a dragonrider setting and a zombie apocalypse. The worldbuilding felt a little rushed, but the story is solid and the narrative pacing is good. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

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Shallow Empathy

Revisado: 02-18-21

Very not okay with this book. I came to it looking for hope as a gay Christian, but it looks like there simply is no hope for me and my desire for a loving, monogamous, covenantial relationship with my partner. It looked like he might be sympathetic when he opened with a statement about challenging the conservative interpretation, chapter by chapter he dismisses every argument as either unfounded or misdirected, while giving no alternatives to those who live with this identity.

I do not recommend this book to anyone looking for hope in the gay Christian lifestyle.

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Kid Snark and Child Logic

Revisado: 12-30-18

"I know. You're a navigational computer. You've told me, like, a thousand times."
"I've told your four times. And Jim told you once."
"You were counting?"
"I'm a computer. Everything I do is counting."

The characters in this story are so vivid, I feel like I know them as well as I know myself. Zero especially won his way into my heart with a combination of kid snark and beautifully childish logic.

"Human beings require a wide range of vitamins and other nutrients. A diet of nothing but cheeseburgers and pies is not healthy."
"Yeah, but what are you going to do about it? You're just a navigational computer."
". . . That is accurate."

I will definitely reread this one!

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Unnecessarily Juvenile

Revisado: 12-29-18

It was really interesting to learn more about the Victorian age, but it would have been nice to know it was as... "mature" as it was? I ended up skipping almost half the chapters, because I don't really want to hear about someone else's sex life, thanks. (Why does EVERYTHING come back to sex, anyway? *grumble grumble*)

This book seemed to revel in juvenile delight at sharing "dirty" secrets. Honestly, it would have been a lot more interesting if it hadn't.
#documentary #britain #history #mature

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