Tin Swift (Age of Steam, #2)

Posted on 10 June 2018 by Devon Monk

In steam age America, men, monsters, machines and magic battle to claim the same scrap of earth and sky In this chaos, one man fights to hold on to his humanity and his honor Life on the frontier is full of deceit and danger, but bounty hunter Cedar Hunt is a man whose word is his bond Cursed with becoming a beast every full moon, Cedar once believed his destiny was to be alone But now, Cedar finds himself saddled with a group of refugees, including the brother he once thought lost.Keeping his companions alive is proving to be no easy task, in part because of the promise he made to the unpredictable Madder brothers three miners who know the secret mechanisms of the Strange To fulfill his pledge, Cedar must hunt a powerful weapon known as the Holder a search that takes him deep into the savage underbelly of the young country and high into the killing glim field skies defended by desperate men and deadly ships.But the battles he faces are just a glimmer of a growing war stirring the country To keep his word Cedar must navigate betrayal, lies, and treacherous alliances, risking everything to save the lives of those he has come to hold dear Best Read [ Tin Swift (Age of Steam, #2) ] By [ Devon Monk ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr So perilously, perilously close to being a five star book So close.Let s start with how this book opens in the super fun part of Happily Ever After, namely the bit that comes after that, when everything s gone to hell I LOVE THIS AUTHORS DO MORE OF THIS.No wait, let s start with how this book was everything I really wanted Bioshock Infinite to be that it wasn t I really felt some strong parallels between Booke...I enjoy a good western I love SiFi I am beginning to read Steampunk SiFi and really liking it I occasionally enjoy a good supernatural horror story This series does all that for me A superb blending of all these different story t...Okay, it could have been less than 5 stars due to what feels like a rushed end However, the action and writing was so intense in the last 80 pages or so that it got me hooked to all characters and I can t wait to read the last volume Goodreads once againAnother 5 star Roller Coaster Ride from Devon Monk Is Tin Swift great literature Nah But is it a whole lotta fun, written well, developed well, and filled with excitement, cover to cover Yep If anything, Tin Swift is even better than the first book of this series, Dead Iron, so it gets a full 5 stars from me for pure entertainment value.Again, the setting is an alternate steampunk version of America and the westward expansion, as it never was, of course, but as it is cleverly re imagined to Another 5 star Roller Coaster Ride from Devon Monk Is Tin Swift great literature Nah But is it a whole lotta fun,...don t remember why I picked up the first book in this series Dead Iron most likely read a favorable review Unfortunately after finishing I didn t write a full review a fact that I am lamenting but I gave it 4 of 5 stars on Goodreads I enjoyed it enough that I purchased this book and it sat unread on my bookshelf for maybe a year and a half while I worked my way through my daunting pile of to reads Well, I finally got around to reading it and I bu don t remember why I picked up the first book in this series Dead Iron most likely read a favorable review Unfortunately after finishing I didn t write a full review a fact that I am lamenting but I gave it 4 of 5 stars on Goodreads I enjoyed it enough that I purchased this book and it sat unread on my bookshelf for maybe a year and a half while I worked my way through my daunting pile of to reads Well, I finally got around to reading it and I burned through it in less then a day.Devon Monk has created a steam driven America, where the wild west is full of the men who want power, power over glim, and power over the nation Cedar Hunt, a man cursed by the Pawnee Indians to hunt the land as both man and beast for the strange, is on the trail from Oregon to Kansas Along with his brother Will, the Madder Brothers, Rose Small, and Mae Lindson, Cedar finds himself in an airship chase linked to revenge, th...Steampunk, Airships, The Wild West, The Strange, werewolves and magic I love this series When I read Dead Iron last year, I was intrigued by the author s original mix of steampunk, the Wild West, magic, and werewolves The result was a fantastic action packed novel Upon finishing Dead Iron I immediately pre ordered Tin Swift Unfortunately,...3.5 stars There was a lot to love about this book It started with what might be the most stunning cover I ve ever seen, I really couldn t get enough of looking at it It s really even better in person than the picture you re seeing on the Internet, especially because the colors aresubtle I don t know why so many covers get brighter when they re put online by the publishers but this one is much better in in real life, get it and see.And the cover really captures the book, the danger and 3.5 stars There was a lot to love about this book It started with what might be the most stunning cover I ve ever seen, I really couldn t get enough of looking at it It s really even better in person than the picture you re seeing on the Internet, especially because the colors aresubtle I don t know why so many covers get brighter when they re put online by the publishers but this one is much better in in real life, get it and see.And the cover really captures the book, the danger and the adventure, the Old West meets Streampunk nature of the stories, and the ship The ship the best character in the book, it s no wonder the book is named after her she was just cool And her captain, Hink, was a great new character, vivid and bold, almost larger than life, but with a lot of depth developed...4.5 stars I liked this one even better than the first Lots of action, we got to know the characters evenand there was certainly character development, and two budding romances as distant secondary story lines If I had a negative it would be that I d like a bitaction on the romance front but the story didn t suffer for the slow pace and lack of detail in that regard.Airships abound in this book and it s great I love the steampunk elements and lore in this series and how Monk has c 4.5 stars I liked this one even better than the first Lots of action, we got to know the characters evenand there was certainly character development, and two budding romances as distant secondary story lines If I had a negative it would be that I d like a bitaction on the romance front but the story didn t suffer for the slow pace and lack of detail in that regard.Airships abound in this book and it s great I love the steampunk elements and lore in this series and how Monk has combined the steam with the magic I love the way she s woven the magic and supernatural through the lore, even the way the good guys have and use magic is gritty down and dirty I loved the dialog in this book Not only did it afford some wonderful character development but I found myself laughing out loud onthan a few oc...I am still firmly on the fence about this series I was hoping that book two would push me over into the I love this series category It didn t.Monk is really good at writing action scenes They move quickly and are packed full of violence Just the way I like em She s also not afraid to permanently maim or kill her characters Another trait I appreciate Another pro is that Monk doesn t get bogged down in the steampunk aspect of her stories The steampunk devices just flow naturally throug I am still firmly on the fence about this series I was hoping that book two would push me over into the I love this series category It didn t.Monk is really good at writing action scenes They move quickly and are packed full of violence Just the way I like em She s also not afraid to permanently maim or kill her characters Another trait I appreciate Another pro is that Monk doesn t get bogged down in the st...Tin Swift picks up a few weeks after the end of the first book It continues the adventures of Cedar and Company as they trek east, each with their own purposes for doing so Like book one, Tin Swift continues to tell the story from the third person POV of Cedar, Mae, and Rose however there are some new characters this time around and two of them also get added into the POV mix The result, sadly at least for me , is a decrease in the POV chapters from Mae and Rose One thing that I enjoy about Tin Swift picks up a few weeks after the end of the first book It continues the adventures of Cedar and Company as they trek east, each with their own purposes for doing so Like book one, Tin Swift continues to tell the story from the third person POV of Cedar, Mae, and Rose however there are some new characters this time around and ...

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10 June 2018

Devon Monk