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Escapement: The main course


May 21st, 2009  Posted by Robert T.

Jay Lake Trial of Flowers, Madness of Flowers, Mainspring, Escapementfantasy book review Jay Lake EscapementEscapement by Jay Lake

In my opinion, Jay Lake’s Mainspring was a novel full of great potential that was hindered by inconsistent writing and execution. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the book and was looking forward to reading the sequel. Happily, everything that worked so well in the first book has been retained in Escapement, while most of the problems were corrected, resulting in a greatly improved sequel that is everything Mainspring could have been and much more… Read the rest.

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  1. [links] Link salad flies west | jlake.com May 22nd, 2009   2:56 am  

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