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The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick - Greg - 04-09-2020
Ever finish a book and ask yourself what was the point of that whole novel? That's the way I felt about IDD. It was really well written. It's an industrial age fairy tale land which was very interesting. It starts out in a Dickens work house setting and progresses to a modern computer age society, but the magic still runs cheek to jowl with science. It was quite the interweaving.
But I didn't really like the main character, Jane, who is navigating this world. She's a changeling and all that entails. She's not very likable and is very selfish and I kept asking myself why I was bothering with this tale. It was the milieu. It was fascinating. There are glimpses of our world as well, along the way.
So, I don't. The book is kind of with me now. I'm reading it's sequel which involves completely different characters but a different protagonist.
We shall see.