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Originally Posted by Tachikoma
Lindsay Buroker - The Emperor's Edge (a high fantasy in the era of steam)
I know it's bad to rag on self published authors, but this book was terrible. Not so much the writing style, as I think this author could do some really good work, it's just the painful plot elements such as the female lead asking a guard to let her out of prison... then the guard does... or the fact that even the title makes it out to be a steampunk-esque victorian story, but the only references to steam are the fact there's steam trains, steam trucks and steam bulldozers. I think these are used a total of 7 times in the entire book.
I try to read a lot of self published book as there's some absolute gems there like G Wells Taylor, I pretty much spent the last two weeks only reading his books.
I'm hoping that Lindsay improves in later books, and I might download another of her work, but the first book in this series has killed off any enthusiasm I had for these characters and the world.
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I actually enjoyed this one. It was a lot of fun. However, as I wrote in my review of the second novel, "...what worked in the first novel, didn’t work in the second."
It was all just a bit too camp the second time around. I think I would have enjoyed it as a television show more. You're right, the writing itself is good, but I just don't think it's targeted at me. I don't know if I would call it bad fantasy, just "not me" fantasy.