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Ganymede (2011)

by Cherie Priest(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Tor

series

The Clockwork Century

review 1: Cherie Priest has good ideas but struggles to string them together. This book about a reforming air pirate and a madam secreting an experimental sub out of New Orleans is poorly edited so I'd give it a miss. She makes a stylistic choice for a lot of things to happen "offscreen" which I don't get. Words are free. It's not as if she needs to spend her special effects budget wisely. Example: when the crew members are getting to know each other and working out the unlabelled controls of the dangerous sub, we watch the scene from the viewpoint of someone super bored, sitting on the shore, for hours, watching the occasional ripple of water across the surface of the lake. WHY? This was just a tedious drag.
review 2: What a good deal. I was worried about this bo... moreok. I liked Boneshaker a lot. Cherie Priest created such a cool and interesting world that I was really looking forward to Dreadnought. I just found that book to be a bit slower and not as engaging. Maybe it was the train… Just stuck to the tracks and didn’t do as much for me. But Ganymede engaged many of the characters and was just an interesting read with a lot of moving parts. It had decent character development as well as a good storey line. I’ll be looking forward to the next one. less

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