Review by Abe Ziesing
This wonderfully paced, steampunk-ish novella, written in the second-person singular point-of-view, places you, a human, directly into the driver’s seat, on a collision course against the oppressive rulers of this dystopian world - the ogres.
I’ve heard it said about some of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s lengthier works, that pacing can be a drawback, such as in the second and third volumes of the CHILDREN OF TIME series. Mundane world-building and long narrative backstories that st in which heep away from the action, seem to be common criticisms. With this book, Tchaikovsky scarcely gives you an opportunity to take a....