Review: The Iron Duke

The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook

My rating: 1 of 5 stars



I like Steampunk. I like alternate histories. I like sci-fi. Even though this book was all of the above, I didn't like it.

I was so bogged down in geography that I couldn't get involved in the book. I was trying to picture the world as the author designed it and then tried to place the political situations into the map. New cities, countries and people would pop up and it would make me start over. Usually, as you read books, the new terminology becomes clear. You read and gradually understand new phrases, new cultures, new situations, new histories, new technologies. In this book, it just became more puzzling as I went along.

I've finished the book and I still don't understand the basic premises of the book. I now understand what people mean when they say "I didn't get the book."



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