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Das Herz Von Veridon (2012)

by Tim Akers(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

3404206665 (ISBN13: 9783404206667)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Bastei Lübbe

series

The Burn Cycle

review 1: Heart of Veridon started strong, but for a book that’s considered a seminal work in the steampunk/fantasy genre, I was a little disappointed. There are some very cool ideas in the book, but rather than explore them in any depth the author chose to insert action scene after action scene. When I finished the book I felt like I had been in one long knife fight. It’s a chase book, with a little mystery thrown in. Strong sf elements. The zeppelins…I don’t know. They can do all kinds of cool things with the pattern, cogs and wheels, intricate surgeries, and they have guns, but the zeppelin is the best aircraft technology they could master? Seems flawed. Still, it was a good read, but I won’t be continuing on with the series. In the authors defense, I wanted to love thi... mores book and perhaps I set the bar to high.
review 2: Really good, and not what I was expecting. The book is sort of a steampunk-noire, balls out action style book. Most of it operates more on Rule of Cool, and if you think too hard about how the society and technology actually function, it does start to come apart.It's a pretty fast paced, exciting ride and the plot really moves along at a steady pace. The world is explored and secrets are uncovered, no foreshadowing b.s. or dragging confrontations out for a later book in the series. less

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