Showing posts with label 1890s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1890s. Show all posts

The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands - Sarah Brooks

64%

15.02.26

Strange and beautiful, the world and characters drawn with care, and the plot, such as it was, gathering speed like a train on the tracks. This  leisurely, intelligent story perhaps needed a little more steam power to really get going.

Outlawed - Anna North

65%

22.05.23

I don't know what drew me to this but I'm glad I was. It's well-told speculative fiction, a vivid reinterpretation of the Wild West for women. Unfortunately, the author heaped too many misfortunes and poor decisions on the narrator, most of the characters were interchangeable and the ending was rushed and unsatisfying. But it was still a good read so I'm being generous with my grade.