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A review by guppyur
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
1.0
A middling fun airships-and-piracy story, as written by a four year old with a box of crayons.
The broad outlines of the story are fine if utterly unremarkable. The details are handled with the finesse of a drunk Parkinson's patient -- backstory is presented over 90% of the way through the book just in time to become critically important, which is about the level of craftsmanship you can expect from Wooding. People don't say things, they grin them, or bellow them, or some other verb picked from Bartlett's Familiar Fantasy Tropes. Everyone acts exactly as you'd expect them to, according to the designs on the cardboard from which they're cut.
Not the worst thing around. I've certainly read worse. But not particularly worth your time, attention, or money.
The broad outlines of the story are fine if utterly unremarkable. The details are handled with the finesse of a drunk Parkinson's patient -- backstory is presented over 90% of the way through the book just in time to become critically important, which is about the level of craftsmanship you can expect from Wooding. People don't say things, they grin them, or bellow them, or some other verb picked from Bartlett's Familiar Fantasy Tropes. Everyone acts exactly as you'd expect them to, according to the designs on the cardboard from which they're cut.
Not the worst thing around. I've certainly read worse. But not particularly worth your time, attention, or money.