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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Steeplejack, Return of Souls, Spells of Blood and Kin, and Pride's Spell
Posted on 2016-06-22 at 03:49 by angelablackwell
Review of Steeplejack by A.J. Hartley (Tor Teen, June 14, 2016)
Steeplejack is set in the ethnically diverse industrial capital of a land resembling Victorian South Africa. The viewpoint character is Anglet Sutonga, a young woman who repairs steeples. The death of a fellow steeplejack soon sends her on an investigation to discover what happened to him. His death is just a small part of a much larger scheme threading through the city across class and racial barriers.
Bar-Selehm is a city of towers and
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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Lustlocked by Matt Wallace
Posted on 2016-01-26 at 22:25 by angelablackwell
Review of Lustlocked by Matt Wallace (Tor.com, January 26, 2016)
This is the second Sin Du Jour novella (the follow-up to Envy of Angels), and continues the adventures of two intrepid chefs, Lena and Darren. Their lives are much stranger than those of chefs in normal New York restaurants; events catered by their employer are considered successful if no members of the staff are killed!
This adventure revolves around the wedding of the prince of the goblins to a normal human. This causes some political
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