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chillvamp's review
4.0
Just like in The Rise of Ransom City, I missed Liv and Creedmoor. They are in this collection too, but only mentioned in passing, as it's set before Professor Ransom crosses paths with them.
I did enjoy the epistolary format, and how Gilman uses it to showcase Ransom's unreliability, when Ransom tells different versions of events with varying degrees of detail depending on who he's writing to. Flood was not as compelling an Agent as Creedmoor, and honestly I felt his behavior was cast in Creedmoor's shadow and didn't really have that much to it that was unique, but where his character is not quite as compelling as could be, the worldbuilding more than makes up for that.
Overall I enjoyed this collection, and look forward to seeing where Gilman takes the series next.
I did enjoy the epistolary format, and how Gilman uses it to showcase Ransom's unreliability, when Ransom tells different versions of events with varying degrees of detail depending on who he's writing to. Flood was not as compelling an Agent as Creedmoor, and honestly I felt his behavior was cast in Creedmoor's shadow and didn't really have that much to it that was unique, but where his character is not quite as compelling as could be, the worldbuilding more than makes up for that.
Overall I enjoyed this collection, and look forward to seeing where Gilman takes the series next.
jake_'s review
2.0
I found this mostly dull, but there were bits in here that made me think Gilman's novels could be worth reading. Of the books I've read, reminiscent of The Etched City by K. J. Bishop or The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey.
pranavroh's review
2.0
An epistolary novella which forms a small part of the larger series written by the same author. IT was an exceptionally boring read - meandering, pointless without even a gripping plot, hacking an interesting premise to an imconsequential death.
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