City of Wolves, Willow Palacek
City of Wolves makes a good, quick steampunk/mystery read, but it doesn’t have much depth. It’s competently enough written, but the fact that it zooms along hinders it somewhat from feeling like a fully developed world. I was actually intrigued by the background of the Loyalists and the War of the Wolves, but there was very little solid happening there. It felt like a potential setting for more, with this just being a taster.
It’s enjoyable, and I’d read more set in the same world, but it fails to satisfy, I think. More substance is needed, really — flesh on the bones, so to speak. Also, the revelation at the end… I saw it coming.
What a pity, with such a great book name! I don’t read steampunk and was intrigued by War of the Wolves but it doesn’t sound like it’d be my kind of thing. Thanks for the helpful review!
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No, I don’t think it’d be something you’d enjoy!
I enjoyed this one enough, though I agree it needed a lot more substance. If she decides to write a sequel though, I wouldn’t mind reading.
No, me neither! It just didn’t… get above ‘okay’ for me.