A review by darren0101
Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott

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