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A review by angrbotha
Mainspring by Jay Lake
2.0
Everything in this book comes down to Deus Ex Machina. Some of it more literal than others.
There were parts of this book that I really liked. The world was very imaginative and interesting. Though I found the mixture of interesting imaginative world and real world history, plus the heavy dose of real world Christianity a bit weird. It just didn't quite work for me.
But the book was rather lacking in some areas. The main character, Hethor, was pretty much passive the whole time, events were only driven forward by Deus Ex Machina. I felt like he was basically sitting around while people threw him forward and died around him. And I never really understood the motivations of any of the other major characters, who tended to be overly opaque, and then leave or die.
I was hoping that the end would tie it together, but it didn't come through. And the last bit seemed really tacked on.
All-in-all I really wanted more.
There were parts of this book that I really liked. The world was very imaginative and interesting. Though I found the mixture of interesting imaginative world and real world history, plus the heavy dose of real world Christianity a bit weird. It just didn't quite work for me.
But the book was rather lacking in some areas. The main character, Hethor, was pretty much passive the whole time, events were only driven forward by Deus Ex Machina. I felt like he was basically sitting around while people threw him forward and died around him. And I never really understood the motivations of any of the other major characters, who tended to be overly opaque, and then leave or die.
I was hoping that the end would tie it together, but it didn't come through. And the last bit seemed really tacked on.
All-in-all I really wanted more.