Fofo’s #CBR4 Review #22: Phoenix Rising by Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris
Target: Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris’ Phoenix Rising(Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences #1)
Profile: Steampunk, Mystery
I’m having a bit of a bad run. REAMDE was obnoxiously long and mostly not good so I went after a bit of steampunk book candy in Phoenix Rising, which turned out to be mostly not good. I wrote in my review of The Wise Man’s Fear that a good book can capture your attention and power you through exhaustion. Conversely, a bad book will put you right to sleep. I feel asleep six times trying to finish Phoenix Rising, and two of those times were in the middle of the day. It could be that I’ve read enough steampunk that the setting is starting to get boring for me, but I’m more inclined to put the blame on bad writing and terrible puns.
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