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This is one of my favorite books. However, it is an extremely long book and if you don't have blocks of time dedicated to reading, it will take a while to get through it. If you are someone who dislikes authors whose writing style involves very detailed descriptions, then you will probably not care for this author at all. This book, for me, was fascinating. I would classify it as Steampunk Science Fiction. The characters' points of view, from each character's chapters, are superbly written and detailed. I purchased the second book, but haven't set aside time to read it--at some point, I will read the first one over--it is so wonderfully written with a storyline that is very unusual, explored by equally unique and delightful characters.


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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Gordon Dahlquist Books Reviews

This is a fully imagined world filled with fully developed characters, each described so well visually and through their actions and relations with the people around them that you have no problem immersing yourself completely into the created world and its events. I came away from this book with a real visual imprint--colors, textures, faces, costumes, the landscape--but also a sense of willfulness )

Each member of the hero triumverate is so able to think wildly on his/her feet and to care deeply and without shame about what he/she cares about that you really SEE the difference between those who never have to struggle for the things they want because they already have them, those who are willing to simply experience everything through the blue glow of their television screen, hoping only for a more throughly sensual experience somewhere down the technological road, and those who, in struggling, come to such a different point in their lives and such an internal revolution, that the other two options of passive experience are left utterly meaningless. Everything about the book says Don't Give Up. It's immensely creative--though, if I could have changed anything, it would have been the amount of blood at the end.
Exciting book, and interesting characters. Too much details of fights, and the trifecta of always showing the three characters parallell stories separately grew a bit repetitive after a bit. I feel the story could do with a bit of editing, it was a bit long and the troubles for the characters seemed to be repeated with narrow escapes every time. But I enjoyed the characters and the universe the author has created, but i might wait a while before i read the sequels.
I read this book on my , which I'm still getting used to, but I don't think that swayed my opinion much. I'm a fan of big, involved storylines, and I'm never afraid of a thick book, but I did feel like this novel contained a few too many captures and escapes and long chase scenes.

What I really enjoyed was the portrayal of Miss Temple as a sassy, kicky young woman who, in a very uptight time, manages to establish her own very distinctive personality and kicks some butt. She was believable and feisty. Cardinal Chang and Dr. Svenson also are well developed, and I found myself liking the trio a great deal. On the flip side, the enemies seemed more two-dimensional and a bit ordinary - Rosamund just kept sounding like Cruella DeVille.

On the whole - just a generally "okay" read...
I found the plot a little shaky and kind of boring for a fantasy; Sexual references were unnecessary and unrealistic. Perhaps the author has a crotch-less pantie fetish?
I enjoyed the story from three different people's perspective, but after awhile I felt like I was plowing through tooooooooo much description. Sadly stopped reading 3/4 of the way through. Lost interest. The author needed to tighten the story up. Tooooooooo much description of getting through a dark hallway. Bummer. I really wanted to finish it but.......didn't hold my interest. Darn. I hate when this happens. And, saying it is historical???.. I have read better historical, fanciful novels .
This volume had been sitting on the shelf for about a year before I finally got the urge to pick it up. Set in the late Victorian era, the story moves along at a breakneck pace and is told through the adventures of three individuals who meet and form a deductive powerhouse in what may be one of the best steampunk styled novels I’ve read.
If you like snapping dialogue, well written characters equally adept at rough physical action/violent activities and moments of deduction a la A. C. Doyle, then The Glass book of the Dream eaters is a a mind-sucking treasure.
Pluses
* excellent character development
* enough villainy and bad behaviors to fill two more volumes
* enough plot twists to keep the reader guessing until the very end.
I purchased the next book in the series before I finished the first book.
It started out so well, the alternative history setting was absorbing, realistic, and drew me in… but then it all fell apart. It seemed to me like a Steampunk video game, written into novel format.
It made me wish for keyboard shortcuts, especially for Miss Temple (eg. alt-s = stab; alt-q = squeek; alt-m= moan; alt-x = do something unbelievably stupid like run off to the Royale, leaving her accomplices etc etc)
Sheer bloody mindedness made me finish it, skipping chunks of text till it was dead and I was free. Seriously, if you want a good Cyberpunk alt-history novel read "The Difference Engine" by Gibson & Sterling. Dont waste precious life on this book.
2 stars, it could be worse.
This is one of my favorite books. However, it is an extremely long book and if you don't have blocks of time dedicated to reading, it will take a while to get through it. If you are someone who dislikes authors whose writing style involves very detailed descriptions, then you will probably not care for this author at all. This book, for me, was fascinating. I would classify it as Steampunk Science Fiction. The characters' points of view, from each character's chapters, are superbly written and detailed. I purchased the second book, but haven't set aside time to read it--at some point, I will read the first one over--it is so wonderfully written with a storyline that is very unusual, explored by equally unique and delightful characters.