{"id":217,"date":"2003-06-22T22:48:44","date_gmt":"2003-06-23T02:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=217"},"modified":"2003-06-22T22:48:44","modified_gmt":"2003-06-23T02:48:44","slug":"edgerton_teresa_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/06\/edgerton_teresa_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgerton, Teresa: (02) The Gnome’s Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Being June 22, yes, I’ve read the new Harry Potter (spoiler-filled first thoughts on my LiveJournal<\/a>). However, I thought I would clear the decks, so to speak, on the book log, by catching up on the backlog before starting the slow and detailed re-read that will inevitably spawn enormous posts here and on the LJ.<\/p>\n

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First up is Teresa Edgerton’s The Gnome’s Engine<\/cite><\/strong>, which is the sequel to Goblin Moon<\/cite><\/a>. At the end of that book, our protagonists were heading for the New World to flee their several enemies. This book opens a year later; our protagonists have spent the year getting established and getting the idea for the titular machine, but otherwise not much has changed: villains still searching, True Loves still separated by circumstance, etc.<\/p>\n

This is kind of an odd book. The plot takes a while to get going, there are some plot threads whose relationship to the overall plot is rather ambiguous, and the end-of-book confrontation is distinctly anti-climactic. The best word I can think to describe it is “genteel”; it meanders along, with bad things presented in a non-bleak tone, and at the end everyone picks up their toys and cordially goes home. I think I liked it, but again, it was odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being June 22, yes, I’ve read the new Harry Potter (spoiler-filled first thoughts on my LiveJournal). However, I thought I would clear the decks, so to speak, on the book log, by catching up on the backlog before starting the slow and detailed re-read that will inevitably spawn enormous posts here and on the LJ. … <\/p>\n

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