The Wonder Engine

Clocktaur War, Book 2

De: T. Kingfisher

Narrado por: Khristine Hvam

In the sequel to Clockwork Boys, Slate, Brenner, Caliban and Learned Edmund have arrived in Anuket City, the source of the mysterious Clockwork Boys. They even managed to build some trust in each other's skills. That trust is built on quicksand as the risks continue to escalate. But the secrets they're keeping could well destroy them, before the city even gets the chance...

Old foes and consequences of past decisions lurk in the shadows. Every team member's skills are required to succeed - even more so if they hope to survive.

The Wonder Engine never lets us forget our funny, broken group even as the action propels our heroes to new highs and lows. It shows that making the most of the rest of your life can be rewarding - no matter how many mechanical abominations you need to destroy to get there.

©2018 Ursula Vernon (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Nearly as good as the first

Fabulous, absolutely fabulous narrator.

The story wrap up is also fairly good with 2 problems. Too much filler,too much internal dialog. And every stupid person ‘pinches the bridge of their damn noses’ in frustration, anger, fear, sadness, etc. The nose bridge pinching happens 2-3 DOZEN times. It’s both waaayyy too often and something I’ve never seen anyone do in real life. Including me!

Good storytelling

I am never disappointed with the writing style of T. Kingfisher. This book was not at the top of my list, but glad I got it as it tied up all of the loose ends in Book 1

if Terry Pratchett wrote wages of fear

The desperate heist story is a classic for a reason. Mismatched protagonists thrown together on a mission of likely death, learning to work together or betray each other... it's a great story and it's still great here, where a big heaping dollop of humor makes it just so much fun!

Fascinating story, great world-building.

I enjoyed this story and the world it lives in. Characters are well/fleshed out, love the narrator.

Entertaining!

Loved the story and loved the performance! However, having to refrain from shouting artiFICer every time the narrator said arTIFicer was a little distracting.

A great conclusion!

An excellent wrap-up from the first book. This one starts immediately after the first one finishes, and basically concludes the story. There is a lot more jeopardy and bloodshed, though it’s not overly gory. Definitely a LOT happening in this book. Including the romance between Slate and Calaban. The resolution of the Clocktaur arc was surprising and clever, and also somewhat traumatizing. But the whole thing wrapped up very nicely. Practically with a bow on top!

Beautiful and Haunting

This was so great. Loved all the twists and turns. I love me some emotionally constipated characters.

How does this go through editors and say artificer so badly over and over.

Enjoyable

A fun read, had me laughing and crying. Binged both books in two days.
"Shut up, Brenner."

love these books

I love all of these books. It was very cool to hear more about the Clocktaur Wars after reading Saint Of Steel. Admittedly, I really sorely missed the voice/narrator from the Saint Of Steel books. His voice was so soothing. As well, the discrepancies in the pronunciation of places/things and in the knoll speech between the two sets of books also got on my nerves juuust a little. I also really do wish they were longer and more detailed but thats because i like them so much. However, this is all pickiness; the stories are great and I will be re-reading.

Great story and performance

Glad it was a 2 part story so the characters could be more developed. I liked how the details trickled out versus everything just being dumped in the beginning. I think listening to the fine narration gave the story an added layer of its own.