Ganymede

Clockwork Century, Book 4

By: Cherie Priest

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he’s happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money’s good, he doesn’t think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects. But becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly’s first legal gig - a supply run for the Seattle Underground - will be paid for by sap money.

New Orleans is not Cly’s first pick for a shopping run. He loved the Big Easy once, back when he also loved a beautiful mixed-race prostitute named Josephine Early - but that was a decade ago, and he hasn’t looked back since. Jo’s still thinking about him, though, or so he learns when he gets a telegram about a peculiar piloting job. It’s a chance to complete two lucrative jobs at once, one he can’t refuse. He sends his old paramour a note and heads for New Orleans, with no idea of what he’s in for - or what she wants him to fly.

But he won’t be flying. Not exactly. Hidden at the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain lurks an astonishing war machine, an immense submersible called the Ganymede. This prototype could end the war, if only anyone had the faintest idea of how to operate it….

If only they could sneak it past the Southern forces at the mouth of the Mississippi River…. If only it hadn’t killed most of the men who’d ever set foot inside it. But it’s those “if onlys” that will decide whether Cly and his crew will end up in the history books, or at the bottom of the ocean.

©2011 Cherie Priest (P)2011 Macmillan Audio

Good Series

Good series. I am going to continue until it ends and may pick it up again.

And in the fourth book we get... Zombies

A great new entry in the clockwork universe, is somewhat marred (and loses one star) by having a lengthy continuity error early in the book, but it is worth getting past that and getting into Ms.Priests New Orleans which is rich with that city's flavor and a solid story.

It is also the first instance of the word "zombie" appearing and the term coming from the Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau no less, is a brilliant touch.

(But Cly met Mercy at the end of Dreadnought so having him meet her again at the beginning of Ganymede is somewhat jarring /continuity rant)

Disappointed

The narration was fine. it's was the inconsistency of the story line that had me yelling at my phone. Are we sure the author of the other well written stories wrote this? maybe it was done before the other books?

Well paced and great voice acting. Loved every bit

Really well done. From the voice acting to the narration. However I wish the characters could be voiced by the same narrators as the previous books but alas thats not how it works i guess

The queen of steampunk returns

Possibly the weakest of the “Clockwork Century” books (I haven’t read the last one yet), but still good. This one just seemed slow to get the story moving alone.