Huh. I didn't know anything about this book except for the author and title, but that is definitely not what I'd vaguely envisioned based on the title. "Gaslight" definitely led me to expect actual steampunky worldbuilding/setting.
I like some of those sentences/phrases, but agree that they wouldn't work for me when part of a slow book I'm reading for the story.
It does sound rather different from Warchild, and I do hope that one works better for you.
I'm only a few pages in to Warchild, but I'm liking it a lot (even though I'm still in the second person section).
I'm wondering if her original story was too long, and they cut out all the parts that would be steampunk-y. There wasn't even a single gaslight in the book! No mention of lighting at all, other than a fire built when they camped out. Odd.
I'm about 15% into Warchild and LOVING it. I cannot believe the same author wrote Gaslight Dogs! If she hadn't mentioned Warchild in the Gaslight forward, I would think this was just a case of two authors with the same name.
Warchild is amazing! Love the voice, love the world, loved the darkness of the intro, love the alien(?) guy who gets the kid after he escapes the pirates. Loving everything about it!
Oh good! I'm glad it's working for you much better! (and this probably means there's absolutely no reason for me to check out Gaslight Dogs, since the only reason I was thinking of doing so was on the strength of the Warchild book).
I hope you continue to enjoy the series! For me, it just kept getting better from the beginning of Jos's book, although book 2 is my overall favorite.
I like descriptive language, especially if it makes me see something in a different way- literally painting an image in the mind. But some of those sentences don't make any sense? Too bad.
A gun, a train, and the word Gaslight on the cover doesn't make a steampunk novel, hahahaha! I would have given up. You're will is greater than mine by many miles!
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I like some of those sentences/phrases, but agree that they wouldn't work for me when part of a slow book I'm reading for the story.
It does sound rather different from Warchild, and I do hope that one works better for you.
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I'm wondering if her original story was too long, and they cut out all the parts that would be steampunk-y. There wasn't even a single gaslight in the book! No mention of lighting at all, other than a fire built when they camped out. Odd.
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Warchild is amazing! Love the voice, love the world, loved the darkness of the intro, love the alien(?) guy who gets the kid after he escapes the pirates. Loving everything about it!
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I hope you continue to enjoy the series! For me, it just kept getting better from the beginning of Jos's book, although book 2 is my overall favorite.
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