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Book descriptionThe most succinct way to describe The Iron Wyrm Affair is a convoluted mess. It is really disappointing to have looked forward to this book for the last few months only to be let down so thoroughly. Not just let down - I have rarely been so frustrated by a book that I wanted to hurl my Kindle across the room. If the following review sounds confused and incoherent, that is because I just wasted the last few hours of my life reading one of the most incoherent books Ive ever had the misfortune to come across.There is little I have taken away from this story other than the following: Archibald Clare is supposed to be a mentath and one half of this Bannon & Clare story but was outshone by one of Emma Bannons Shields, Emma Bannon has a short temper and serious trust issues and this was an urban fantasy novel disguised as steampunk.Firstly, those whore reading this as a steampunk novel should be quickly disabused of this notion - there is little of the steampunk variety here other than vague mentions of automatons, logic engines and various mechas. They attack our heroes, although its not very well-established why this happens; it just does. Magic is really the name of the game here, since Emma Bannon is a sorceress through and through. Apparently one of the most feared classes of sorcerers in the realm, she tosses it around without a thought, defeats enemy after enemy with her powers and so on - its frankly hard to see why it was even necessary for there to be machines if she could do everything with her magic. I would be greatly distressed if people walk away from this book feeling like the steampunk genre is not for them. Let me assure them that this is hardly a representative example.Its fairly obvious from the cover that The Iron Wyrm Affair has borrowed from the Guy Ritchie film in the most outrageous fashion - about the only noticeable difference is that we have a girl on the cover rather than two guys. The things immediately established at the outset only confirm that this is a failed attempt to imitate Sherlock Holmes; Archibald Clare constantly harps on about his powers of deduction, except rather than impressive showings of logic, he only ever waffles on about things that I figured out long before he put a stop to his verbal diarrhea. He even has an arch-nemesis, Dr. Vance, who is mentioned in passing but never appears at all. Instead, Emma Bannon charges into his house and drags him off with great urgency, they are attacked by various supernatural/natural beings (this entire episode was such a mess that I could hardly follow it) and it is thus established that Clares genius is in danger. Oohhh.After this most confusing opening, it only gets worse. The author appears to think that if shed just toss out new terminology and insert character/place names as she goes, readers will simply figure it out. NO. It doesnt work that way, particularly when we are given no context whatsoever on most occasions. More often than not, details are either not explained or a passing remark made MUCH LATER will finally enlighten me. Really, I shouldnt have to find myself wondering things like, What the heck is a/the Shadow? when characters are talking about it, only to reach the next chapter and itd be finally placed in context so that I realize, Oh, I think its the name of a place! There are also many instances where the tension builds to a climax and youre at the point where a characters fighting for their lives... and then youre ripped away and dropped into a different POV. By the time you return, the actions over and youre only told what has happened. Worse, the magic system, which Emma constantly references and is obviously central to her scenes, is only explained 4/5ths of the way through the book at page 246. By then, I had given up on understanding it, only to be greeted with a one-page infodump.This is all unfortunately coupled with overly verbose prose that is often grammatically incorrect or simply clunky - its an obvious effort to twist words around so that theyd sound as complicated and historical as possible. Take the following sentence, for example:A traitorous warmth bloomed in her belly, was sternly shelved.Or this one:Clare freed himself with a violent, wrenching twist, losing his top hat, and made it up to one knee, his freshly loaded silver-chased pepperbox pistol out....What? I had to read that sentence several times.I could forgive these poor attempts to imitate period language if it wasnt so obvious that the author couldnt decide whether to make Londinium (yes, not London, because that would be too normal, see?) true to the Victorian Era or turn it into a totally unique fantasy world. There seemed to be a reluctance to commit to either, so we end up with a weird combination of both - Emma talks about hiring hansom cabs, there are apparently social norms for well-bred ladies that shes clearly not following, theres a queen and her consort, a Duchess of Kent, Buckingham, etc. However, the queen has been renamed Victrix and her husband Alberich, the spirit of Britannia apparently chooses vessels and are surrounded by sorcerers... its really a badly disguised alternate London. Id probably appreciate it more if there was better world-building, but I lost my grasp of anything in this novel somewhere at the beginning.As for the characters, theyre little better developed than the rest of the novel. Ive already mentioned Clares so-called logical deductions that are less deductions than they are gigantic, unexplained mental leaps that serve to move the plot along. Emma is much better developed and it is thankfully her POV that we get most of the time, but she irritates me almost as much as Clares completely useless self because she spends much of the book insisting on her distrust of her Shield/bodyguard, Mikal. This is after he has saved her life repeatedly, worried about her safety like a mother hen and made it obvious to everyone who isnt BLIND that he thinks the world of her.On the upside, the complicated burgeoning relationship between Emma and Mikal was not only a very pleasant surprise, but also the only thing that kept me reading this horrendous mess. The slowly unfolding details of their history was fascinating, and I gave it one more star for this sole reason. I might even have considered picking up the sequel and only reading their sections if the author interview at the end of the book had not taken away this one point of satisfaction with her comment that (view spoiler)[Mikal was not so much a love interest as a way for Emma to release a little pressure. (hide spoiler)]The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow (Goodreads Author) reading access download view format
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