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    Ink, Iron, and Glass

    By Gwendolyn Clare

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    In debut author Gwendolyn Clare's thrilling Ink, Iron, and Glass, worlds collide as Elsa unveils a deep political conspiracy seeking to unlock the most dangerous weapon ever created—and only she can stop it.

    Can she write a world gone wrong?

    A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation, where her mother—a noted scriptologist—constantly alters and expands their reality.

    But when her home is attacked and her mother kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her. In an alternative Victorian Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of young scientists with a gift for mechanics, alchemy, or scriptology—and meets Leo, a gorgeous mechanist with a smart mouth and tragic past. She recruits the help of these fellow geniuses just as an assassin arrives on their doorstep.


    An Imprint Book

    “The novel samples historical figures the way a hip-hop album might sample a classic riff: it opens a window to European history, lets in fresh air, and sends facts flying... This novel is a source of serious fun.” —School Library Journal (starred review)

    “This debut novel is fully realized steampunk-fantasy, offering an alternate history that deftly and creatively adopts the politics of 19th-century Italy to create a compellingly unique world.... Exciting and original.” —Kirkus (starred review)

    “Clare's debut is built upon an intriguing premise... A solid series starter featuring a competent, flawed heroine that’s built for sf fans.” —Booklist

    “There’s much more to uncover in the political machinations of each world, and a gasp-worthy ending ensures a sequel.” —BCCB

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateFeb 20, 2018
    ISBN9781250112750
    Author

    Gwendolyn Clare

    Gwendolyn Clare teaches college biology in central Pennsylvania, where she lives with too many cats and never enough books. Her short stories can be found in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Her debut novel was Ink, Iron, and Glass.

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    • 2/5
      It feels like Clare had a general idea of what she wanted to write in Ink, Iron and Glass. Perhaps even a set of rough character sketches, since the characters are fairly well fleshed out. It just didn't feel like it was ever hammered into anything solid. There were a lot of fabulous concepts in this story but, truth be told, they didn't follow a cohesive path. For instance, worldbooks were a really cool concept to me. The ability to create an entire functioning world, simply by scribing it into one of these, sounded like something I'd normally fall in love with. The problem was that the descriptions of this process only skimmed the surface through the whole story. I never saw deeper than the idea itself, and that was the case for most of what would have normally caught my interest.The pace feels maddeningly slow for most of the book, and then picks up in a mad rush to the end. It was really hard to feel invested in the story. Each time that I thought something was starting to peak my interest, the book would meander away on a tangent and my questions went unanswered. I was left holding a handful of story threads, rather than the tapestry that I know they were trying so hard to weave.So 2 stars to this book, because I only 1 star books I didn't finish. I finished this, but it was a rough road.
    • 4/5
      This is a somewhat strange storyline. It's almost steampunky in its strangeness, but somehow works. It kinda makes me think of Inkheart in some ways - especially the literal power related to texts part, though it's definitely exercised in a very different fashion.