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Two more holiday books down!
Crooked Pieces by Sarah Grazebrook - the story of a maid sent to work in the Pankhurst household at the turn of the century, and later drawn heavily into the suffragette movement. whilst also trying to develop a romance with a young policeman. The details about the suffragettes were informative, and it was interesting to see the story from the point of view of a working class woman, but I did find the narrative voice of the protagonist quite annoying at times, and I wasn't really interested in what happened to her.
The Affinity Bridge by George Mann - a steampunk detective novel about rogue automatons making airships crash. Largely fun, with a good plot and excellent characters, but let down by a few bad writing techniques - continually switching POV, sometimes within the same paragraph; having characters explain to one another at length parts of the plot that have already been described in the narrative; some clumsy phrasing and repetition of the same word in quick succession. All things that could be fixed by a decent editor - if Mr Mann can find one of those, I think future books in the series will be much better, as the basic premise is a good one.
Crooked Pieces by Sarah Grazebrook - the story of a maid sent to work in the Pankhurst household at the turn of the century, and later drawn heavily into the suffragette movement. whilst also trying to develop a romance with a young policeman. The details about the suffragettes were informative, and it was interesting to see the story from the point of view of a working class woman, but I did find the narrative voice of the protagonist quite annoying at times, and I wasn't really interested in what happened to her.
The Affinity Bridge by George Mann - a steampunk detective novel about rogue automatons making airships crash. Largely fun, with a good plot and excellent characters, but let down by a few bad writing techniques - continually switching POV, sometimes within the same paragraph; having characters explain to one another at length parts of the plot that have already been described in the narrative; some clumsy phrasing and repetition of the same word in quick succession. All things that could be fixed by a decent editor - if Mr Mann can find one of those, I think future books in the series will be much better, as the basic premise is a good one.
