Edgerton, Teresa - The Gnome's Engine

[oyceter]

Second in a duology that starts with Goblin Moon

I can't tell if I suddenly lost interest in the world or if it's just been too long since I've read it (a whopping week... I have a very bad memory), but this book doesn't seem quite as shiny and exciting as Goblin Moon did.

Thanks to the events in the previous book, Sera, Elsie and Jed are now in the New World. Unfortunately, I am much less interested in the New World. Well... that's not true. But it was a bit of a letdown after all the lovely scheming of the first book.

To be honest, I don't even remember the plot of this book. There was much escaping from villains, and another side plot that involved alchemy and sunken islands. One of the problems I had was that the resolution of the first plot was much more emotional for me than the second, and the second resolution was obviously meant to be the conclusion of the book, which ended up feeling like somewhat of a letdown.

Comments

[loligo.livejournal.com]

I agree -- the second book seemed so slack compared to the first one that I can't even remember if I finished or not. And I *loved* the first one.

[oyceter]

Yeah, I know!! I just finished this last week, and I don't even remember what happened, with the exception of a few Lymond-esque moments here and there.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I don't like it as much either, but it does wrap up dangling plot points.

[oyceter]

Yeah, and I was glad to see Skelbrooke's thing wrapped up as well. Thought I wish Thomas Kelly had been much more exciting and scary!