{"id":2935,"date":"2012-09-04T21:12:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T21:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2012\/09\/04\/review-steamside-chronicles\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T21:12:17","slug":"review-steamside-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2935","title":{"rendered":"review-steamside-chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/9049190%22\" style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px&quot;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/%22http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1328352903m\/9049190.jpg%22\" border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Steamside Chronicles&quot; \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/9049190%22\">Steamside Chronicles<\/a> by <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/498708%22\">Ciar Cullen<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/405940768%22\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      This book deserves 2.5 stars.  It&#8217;s not the worst thing I&#8217;ve read, yet it wasn&#8217;t the best either.<\/p>\n<p>The protagonist, Emily Fenwick, is a police officer who is suddenly whisked into an alternate New York set in 1890.  Except it&#8217;s not really an alternate New York, nor are there any scenarios that could be labeled steampunk.  It&#8217;s more fantasy-based with a world that I found intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>Emily wakes up in Steamside, a world connected to 1890&#8217;s &quot;normal&quot; New York.  Steamside&#8217;s inhabitants are refugees like Emily who long to return to their times.  Why are they here?  It&#8217;s not clearly explained, and that&#8217;s not a good thing, which is a shame because Steamside is interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, the setting is used more as a backdrop to a juvenile, nonsensical romance between the two leads.  POVs were difficult to distinguish, and the dialogue was all jumbled up.  The romance was tedious and unbelievable.  Have I mentioned juvenile?<\/p>\n<p>It was a fun read, but Steamside Chronicles just wasn&#8217;t the best.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/405940768%22\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steamside Chronicles by Ciar Cullen My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book deserves 2.5 stars. It&#8217;s not the worst thing I&#8217;ve read, yet it wasn&#8217;t the best either. The protagonist, Emily Fenwick, is a police officer who is suddenly whisked into an alternate New York set in 1890. Except it&#8217;s not really an alternate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}