Title: Not my cup of tea
Product review: This book wasn't to my liking. Like its predecessor, the villians are absurd - even more so than in Homunculus. They are like bad Adam-West-era Batman villians. And the time travel/history altering that goes on makes this hard to follow at points. And sometimes the characters' motivations are kind of difficult to understand (I mean, let your enemy die already!) Explosions, cackling insane villians damaging toy elephants (is that supposed to be symbolic or suggestive of the later animal damaging that goes on?)... this book was weird. Plus... why do the villians in these books always have to do yucky stuff to animals? Ugh.That being said... the end is subtle and wonderful. Blaylock does a wonderful job of throughly crushing his hapless hero, and so his final redemption is completely, and convincingly, sweet.
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