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The Bookman (2010)

by Lavie Tidhar(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0007346611 (ISBN13: 9780007346615)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

series

The Bookman Histories

review 1: I'm surprised and a bit disappointed that I've never heard of this book or its author. I picked it up because I'm drawn to books that have the word "book" in its title. I really didn't expect the utter delight I felt when I recognised all of the Sherlock Holmes' references and characters. I do wish there could've been more about Sherlock, and possibly Watson, but I do love this world, where there are bookshops everywhere, and mysterious sightings of black blimps, and lizard pirates! I really enjoyed it, and I will definitely pick up the sequel from the library on my next trip!
review 2: It's the first steampunk I've read and like it, the mix of automations, half human half machinelike creatures and Vernelike fiction, the thing I irritated myself on a bit where ... morethe changes of the european history that got me a bit puzzled and that Julius Verne himself showed up in the story. But overall it's a really good story about a young poet loosing his only true love in an explosion that a mystic creature called "the Bookman" arranged and then he realize that she isn't dead but a captive of the the Bookman. And to save her from him he must go on a quest in order to rescuing her do discover the artificial island that "Lez Lizards" that sits on Great Britain's throne come from and stop them from doing something terrible. less

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