Absolutely brilliant. If you are interested in Tesla and Edison and the Current War in 1880s New York City this is the perfect book. For a story basedAbsolutely brilliant. If you are interested in Tesla and Edison and the Current War in 1880s New York City this is the perfect book. For a story based on history there’s are so many twist and turns and so much skullduggery. it takes a great deal of skill to shape the random narrative of history into such a streamlined and sparkling story....more
This book is so, so long. Even on audiobook it is taking time to get through. Though the reading is very good, and the way it is written and the voiceThis book is so, so long. Even on audiobook it is taking time to get through. Though the reading is very good, and the way it is written and the voice of Stevie is really excellent. There are chunks that feel very slow, but there also moments of pure brilliance. And the whole ending with Libby Hatch and the way it plays out, I thought was fantastically done. It has a great Hanibal Lecter feel in the way she tricks them all. In fact every scene with her in is awesome. Only when she is not 'on screen' are the moments when it drags. ...more
I read most of it but I dnf. I think because I watched the TV show and so I know all the twists. There's just not the same compulsion to get to the enI read most of it but I dnf. I think because I watched the TV show and so I know all the twists. There's just not the same compulsion to get to the end, even though the writing is fabulous....more
It is refreshing to read a Victorian story of the time where the young teenage heroine is a cheeky, sarcastic, badly behaved character, who mouths offIt is refreshing to read a Victorian story of the time where the young teenage heroine is a cheeky, sarcastic, badly behaved character, who mouths off to everybody else in the book. So different from demure Dickensian girls, and even the sassy ones, like Miss Nipper or Nancy, don't have the kind of banter that Mord Em'ly (Maude Emily when not rendered in some of the weirder phonetic cockney of the book) comes out with. Ofcourse Mord Em'ly comes good in the end, rising up from her teenage street gang beginnings to become a more respectable grown woman, but even through this, she is still very much her own bloody-minded stubborn self....more
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