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Echo City (2010)

by Tim Lebbon(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0553593226 (ISBN13: 9780553593228)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Spectra

review 1: Oh dear...I'm really having a love/hate relationship with Tim Lebbon's work at the moment. I've read 5 of his Fantasy novels so far: the Dusk/Dawn duology was OK, I loved 'Fallen', 'The Island' didn't inspire me and I really struggled with Echo City.The ideas are nice but it is a similar kind of story to some of his other work, dark and broody and normally with some kind of sleeping god in it. I just found this too long with too many uninteresting chapters and little action. None of the background plot is really explained and the characters are too shallow and boring to care about.I've got some of his horror books to read next so fingers crossed they will live up to expectations!
review 2: A very interesting dark fantasy with some well developed characters, in ... morewhat appears to be a post apoclyptic setting, one city remains cut off from the remainder of the world by a seemingly impassable toxic desert that will turn your organs to mush, until the day someone walks in from that desert with organs unmushed, except maybe for his brain.Loved the twist of magic effectively being a combination of human cloning and attaching extra things you want to them, though was surprised how few ethical complaints were raised about it by any of the characters in the book.There are some fantastic plot elements in the book that shine at times, and the story concept is solid, and the books an enjoyable, if admittably a little heavy going in places. It's worth reading, but it's not going to be heralded as breaking new ground for the genre on the whole. less

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