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A review by kba76
Glass Town Wars by Celia Rees
3.0
Glass Town Wars is a puzzling read. I didn’t dislike this, but I was left frustrated by so many elements.
Fascinated by the Bronte link, but this was not really explored until the latter stages so I never felt we fully got the picture I expected.
We begin with a young man, Tom, who’s in a coma. We don’t know what’s happened to him, but for some reason a friend of his decides to use Tom as a guinea pig in a bizarre gaming experiment. He travels back in time and finds himself caught up in someone’s attempt to overthrow those in power.
Alongside the story of Tom in his travelling guise and Augusta (the woman he ends up fighting for), we find out a little of what’s happening to Tom while in hospital.
While there were a range of aspects to this, they really didn’t combine that clearly. We never got details about what had put Tom in this precarious position, it wasn’t always clear who was being focused on/which world they were part of, and I definitely wanted to know more about the world Tom was in while he was travelling.
Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this prior to publication.
Fascinated by the Bronte link, but this was not really explored until the latter stages so I never felt we fully got the picture I expected.
We begin with a young man, Tom, who’s in a coma. We don’t know what’s happened to him, but for some reason a friend of his decides to use Tom as a guinea pig in a bizarre gaming experiment. He travels back in time and finds himself caught up in someone’s attempt to overthrow those in power.
Alongside the story of Tom in his travelling guise and Augusta (the woman he ends up fighting for), we find out a little of what’s happening to Tom while in hospital.
While there were a range of aspects to this, they really didn’t combine that clearly. We never got details about what had put Tom in this precarious position, it wasn’t always clear who was being focused on/which world they were part of, and I definitely wanted to know more about the world Tom was in while he was travelling.
Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this prior to publication.