Ĭlockwork Heart by Dru Pagliossotti: A re-read, because I enjoyed it the first time. I loved the world Pagliossotti created, and I’m really happy to hear that there’s a sequel in the works. I was expecting it to be okay, maybe, and instead I ended up really liking it and immediately going back to re-read the best bits. Other links: Leila’s review review at Angieville book’s pageĬlockwork Heart by Dru Pagliossotti: This may be the book that surprised me the most for the year. I very much hope that we’ll have a sequel to this some day, or at least another book set in the same world. I did also appreciate that, while there are mentions of lovers and this clearly is not a chaste society, that didn’t necessarily mean that we had to have steamy explicit scenes. In fact, as much as I enjoyed the story and the characters, I think the worldbuilding was what made the book for me. Pagliossotti sold her creation like crazy. I believed the caste structure, I believed the language and the different groups which had developed.
From the first introduction of the city and society I believed it. Instead we were given the growing relationship between two people from very different backgrounds (but different in a way that worked, as opposed to inducing eye-rolling and exclamations of “Oh, come on“).Īnd then there was the worldbuilding. The mystery aspect wasn’t incredibly strong, but I’m not sure that it was meant to be. I especially enjoyed the main characters. While it never astounded it me, it was an entirely enjoyable story, with some very well-written bits. Anyway, whatever the reasons, I was expecting to read it and not be highly impressed.
The cover art was bad, it seemed like it might veer in a kind of trashy direction. The story of Taya, the icarus (basically just a winged messenger), and the unexpected turns her life takes after she rescues an Exalted. Now Elle must join forces with her husband's old friend the Nightwalker Loisa Belododia to track down Marsh's heart and restore it to his chest before time runs out. A plague of clockwork zombies is afflicting London, sowing panic and whispers of revolution. In place of the flesh-and-blood organ is a clockwork device-a device that makes Marsh a kind of zombie.
But in doing so, Marsh loses his heart, literally. So when Commissioner Willoughby of the London Metropolitan Police seeks his help in solving a magical mystery, Marsh is only too happy to oblige. For the couple has scarcely returned from their honeymoon when the ancient battle between Light and Shadow tears them apart.Īs Elle devotes herself to her duties as the Oracle-who alone has the power to keep the dark designs of Shadow at bay-Marsh finds himself missing the excitement of his former life as a Warlock. That might as well have been the wedding vow of Elle Chance and her new husband, the ex-Warlock Hugh Marsh.
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