Book #106 of 2016: Goliath by Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan #3) A fun conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s steampunk retelling of World War I. (Now with Nikola Tesla! At this point, I’m half-convinced that Westerfeld kept adding characters of new nationalities to the story just to hear audiobook reader Alan Cumming do more accents.) The action is …
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Book Review: Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Book #93 of 2016: Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan #2) This second novel in Scott Westerfeld’s steampunk retelling of World War I is an improvement over the first, which didn’t develop its two main characters into likable people until the very end. Here it’s easier to root for them right from the start, give or …
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Book Review: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan #1) Leviathan builds up a neat alternate history of World War I, wherein Austria-Hungary and its allies wield massive steampunk war-mechs against the bioengineered Lovecraftian monstrosities of the UK, France, and Russia. The worldbuilding here was deeply cool, with the promise of even more to come in the sequels. On …
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Book Review: Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
Book #35 of 2015: Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld I really love this novel, which is the first thing I’ve ever read from author Scott Westerfeld. It utilizes a cool narrative structure with two parallel stories told in alternating chapters, each of which has a pretty awesome female protagonist. One is a first-time Young Adult novelist, …
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