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juushikaTitle: The Bonshaker (Arcane 1)
Author: Kate Milford
Illustrator: Andrea Offermann (Illustrator)
Published: Clarion Books, 2010
Rating: 1.5 of 5
Page Count: 375
Total Page Count: 533,290
Text Number: 1953
Read Because: reading more of the author/world, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: A traveling medicine show comes to town, and our protagonist is must unravel its secrets to protect her home and family. This took me two months, and I would have DNF'd except that I liked Greenglass House (my review) and hold out hope for reading other books in this world. But this didn't do it for me. It's a lot of story, and the scale of town saga and deal with the devil sits uneasy against fairly standard MG characterization/arcs; the fabulist historical fiction with automata/carnival aesthetic touches is very visual, setpiecey and aphantasia-unfriendly. This is a debut, so I expect it to be rough, but I think Arcane as a setting just isn't for me.
Author: Kate Milford
Illustrator: Andrea Offermann (Illustrator)
Published: Clarion Books, 2010
Rating: 1.5 of 5
Page Count: 375
Total Page Count: 533,290
Text Number: 1953
Read Because: reading more of the author/world, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: A traveling medicine show comes to town, and our protagonist is must unravel its secrets to protect her home and family. This took me two months, and I would have DNF'd except that I liked Greenglass House (my review) and hold out hope for reading other books in this world. But this didn't do it for me. It's a lot of story, and the scale of town saga and deal with the devil sits uneasy against fairly standard MG characterization/arcs; the fabulist historical fiction with automata/carnival aesthetic touches is very visual, setpiecey and aphantasia-unfriendly. This is a debut, so I expect it to be rough, but I think Arcane as a setting just isn't for me.
