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darren0101's review against another edition
3.0
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Fogg has been the apparent sole curator of the Museum Dome of artworks and painting for the last three years, meets Morag, another resident of the dome who has been watching him all this time.
With the arrival of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Fogg and Morag escape the dome and find themselves caught between the two factions of Lord Sine and Lord Vane. We then jump back and forth discovering how both our central characters came to be in the Dome and how the desire of both Lord Sine and Lord Vane to rule this world drives them both forward.
Andrew Caldecott's book is a trove of ideas in a steampunk world with hints of Alice in Wonderland and occasionally His Dark Materials. I started Momenticon with the idea that I was going to love it. I was so convinced I bought the book before even starting the arc. Unfortunately, not all of it stitches together and there are too many attempts to create an adventure by jumping the characters around from location to location. It was only towards the end of the book that I started to care about either Fogg or Morag and by then it was the end.
This book was provided by NetGalley and the publisher for an honest review
With the arrival of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Fogg and Morag escape the dome and find themselves caught between the two factions of Lord Sine and Lord Vane. We then jump back and forth discovering how both our central characters came to be in the Dome and how the desire of both Lord Sine and Lord Vane to rule this world drives them both forward.
Andrew Caldecott's book is a trove of ideas in a steampunk world with hints of Alice in Wonderland and occasionally His Dark Materials. I started Momenticon with the idea that I was going to love it. I was so convinced I bought the book before even starting the arc. Unfortunately, not all of it stitches together and there are too many attempts to create an adventure by jumping the characters around from location to location. It was only towards the end of the book that I started to care about either Fogg or Morag and by then it was the end.
This book was provided by NetGalley and the publisher for an honest review
bookish_redpanda15's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
kberri11's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
sapphic_shroom's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
schlinkles's review
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
heidi_may91's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
mjporterauthor's review against another edition
5.0
Momenticon is a wonderfully weird and yet engagingly easy to read novel.
It immerses the reader into its strange futuristic world, and I"m only disappointed that it's the first of two parts, and I don't yet know how it all ends.
Readers will thoroughly enjoy the world-building and characters. They too, will be left wanting more as the characters weave their way through an alien world populated with images that readers will find reassuringly familiar.
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my review copy.
It immerses the reader into its strange futuristic world, and I"m only disappointed that it's the first of two parts, and I don't yet know how it all ends.
Readers will thoroughly enjoy the world-building and characters. They too, will be left wanting more as the characters weave their way through an alien world populated with images that readers will find reassuringly familiar.
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my review copy.
kleonard's review against another edition
2.0
I liked the author's earlier work, but this seems to be convoluted for the sake of being convoluted, There are megacorporations running and ruining the world, improbable holdouts and survivors, loads of reality-altering drugs, several murders, a romance, and some good characters, but there was just too much horse-trading instead of actual plot.
themanfromdelmonte's review against another edition
1.0
DNF 78%
I struggled with this book, only abandoning it when I discovered by chance that there is a sequel. I persevered for so long because of my huge respect for the author. (I thought Rotherweird was a work of genius)
However, I lost patience with it in the end. So much of it features unlikely people doing unlikely things that I felt as if I was reading an adult fairy tale at times. The allusions to Alice didn't help and I constantly felt as though I wasn't educated enough to catch all the clever references to art and literature. I don't like to be made to feel stupid when I'm reading a novel for entertainment.
The reader should come to care for the protagonist and I just didn't. None of the characters made sense to the extent that it was hard to believe they could be real.
I struggled with this book, only abandoning it when I discovered by chance that there is a sequel. I persevered for so long because of my huge respect for the author. (I thought Rotherweird was a work of genius)
However, I lost patience with it in the end. So much of it features unlikely people doing unlikely things that I felt as if I was reading an adult fairy tale at times. The allusions to Alice didn't help and I constantly felt as though I wasn't educated enough to catch all the clever references to art and literature. I don't like to be made to feel stupid when I'm reading a novel for entertainment.
The reader should come to care for the protagonist and I just didn't. None of the characters made sense to the extent that it was hard to believe they could be real.
marchelos's review against another edition
dark
hopeful
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75