Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection—black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. His investigation leads to involvement with the media sensation of the age: the Tichborne Claimant, a man who insists that he’s the long lost heir to the cursed Tichborne estate. Monstrous, bloated, and monosyllabic, he’s not the aristocratic Sir Roger Tichborne known to everyone, yet the working classes come out in force to support him. They are soon rioting through the streets of London, as mysterious steam wraiths incite all-out class warfare.

I need to admit here that I had some expectations for this book which it didnt live up to. Ive heard pretty decent things about this book which made me give this book a chance and read it. But now that I am read this book I gotta admit that this book has to be the worst book I have read so far this year.

The main problem I had with this book was the fact that the universe this book takes place in seems to have no rules or boundaries and the characters could just do whatever they wanted without any consequences. Which made me personally think that the author of this book just didn’t care to give us a good book with actual consequences for the characters which of course didn’t happen in this book.

At the same time the plot in this book was very confusing, and I personally had a very hard time trying to understand what was happening in this book because I was constantly confused about what was happening in this book. 

The beginning of this book was pretty interesting, but the further I got in this book the more boring and torturous this book got. Because it just became slower and slower and the plot just kept adding things without going anywhere. Which I personally hate when it happens, I prefer for the plots to straightforward and not get sidetracked every second page as this book kept doing.

The writing style has the whole old English from the early 1800s in it. Which I always find to be hard to understand and confusing. Which is the main reason why I hate this book so much as I do and why DNF-ed this book. 

The characters in this book were very bad and shallow. All of the characters in this book had no personalities or something that would make them unique or standout from the rest of the characters in this book.

The were plenty of stereotypes in this book, like the “bad guy” in this book, the main reason why he was the “bad guy” was because he was fat and thats that, we didn’t get any other reason why the “bad guy” was the “bad guy”.

This book has also very graphic violence scenes for absolutely no reason. 99% of this book tries very hard to be very appropriate for anyone to read but there is this 1% of this book where the violence scenes turn into something which Art the Clown would do in the Terrifier movies. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5