If you like lovely worldbuilding ideas, this book won’t disappoint you. Neal Barret’s world has humans, newlies (which are humanoids magically transformed from animals 300 years ago), and Julia Jessica Slag, who is a lizard made of copper – and by far the most sane creature in this story 😀
Apropo, characters. Finn the inventor is self-absorbed and puffed-up, Letitia is well behaved but always hungry, Nucci senior is a looney, the good doctor is untrustworthy and the chair merchant tops it all off by being absurdly obnoxious 😀 In other words, I love them. They are all flawed on such a spectacular level, you can’t help but like them 😀
Superb narrator. Gave the mechanic lizard an accent. Pretty fun!
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