Caution: Contains Spoilers! In this latest book in the series, Hunt continues with his well-developed steam punk world, based loosely on what Europe might have been like at about the time of the first Commonwealth in England and just after the French Revolution, if both had been even more extreme. This volume is a bit grimmer in tone than the first two. The ending seemed a bit overwrought and less well-crafted than the second novel in the series. I'm wondering if Hunt is feeling the need to ever exceed himself or maintaining a quicker production schedule than the ideal. Still, he maintains his world very well and I always enjoy some of the bizarre details that bring his world to life. The Kingdom of Jackals and the Quatérshift must now work together to defeat a common foe. The Army of Shadows has come to strip the land and enslave the population. Those that remain will be nothing more than sheep to be used as a food source by the masters. A small band of unlikely heroes is the only hope. Molly Templar, a celestial fiction writer who suddenly starts having visions of the heximachina. Purity Drake, quite mad, yet with royal blood running through her veins. Kyorin, an alien in hiding, hoping to save what was left of his own world from the Army of Shadows. Magic and machinery must come together and secrets too dark to believe must come to light. Not having read the first two books in this series, I felt a little lost at first. It took a little time before I got a feel for the world and began getting into the characters of the story. After that point, though, I found it hard to put the book down. Absolutely loved the twists and turns and the surprising directions and mis-directions the action took.
Do You like book The Rise Of The Iron Moon (2000)?
This sounds like an update of The Handmaid's Tale. I'm intrigued.
—Tosh
Another entry in the series. Enjoyed enough to keep going...
—futurevet
I enjoyed this book just as much as the first in the series.
—Bbel
