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Bone Shop (2010)

by T.A. Pratt(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Tropism Press

review 1: This book was better than "Blood Engines" in terms of quality and writing style but I still hated it. There was no real plot. It was a book of three pieces of different plots strung haphazardly together.Daniel's relationship with Marla was disappointing to me. They hate each other and the book continues, then suddenly they're screwing and we dont know how it came to that. If he had built a few more hints leading up to that and described their relationship as more than sex, and random affections, maybe I would have sympathized with Marla when she had to kill him.Poorly written. Everyone is described but Marla and I don't see any real character development. The dialogue always annoys me. It just comes off as generic and insincere to me. Shallow even.
review 2: Bo... morene Shop is a rather short novel (novella) that explains the origins of the character Marla Mason, and her rise from street rat to the head sorcerer-protector of the city Felport. It is told in short, bald sentences and stripped down conversations. Pratt's characters are demonstrated rather than described, and if you can't keep up, you are forced to go back and read that sequence again. My opinion of Marla in Blood Engines is that she is a mostly-cold-hearted almost sociopath. This book explains why she repeatedly chooses to be that way. It also explains her lack of sorcerous specialty as compared to almost all of the other something-mancers. In this quite explanatory prequel, readers get to see the utterly mundane ways that she acquires her cloak of power and her knife of sorcery. They get to follow most of her training in badassery as well as how to use willpower as a weapon.I picked up this story because it is featured in Opening Acts, and I found that taste intriguing (and my plane was delayed).I recommend it to people who like quick action, sarcasm, and a distinct lack of padding and coddling in their worlds. I found myself laughing out loud at some rather inappropriate moments. less

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