{"id":1689,"date":"2006-10-05T19:17:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T19:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/10\/the_glass_books\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T19:17:52","slug":"the_glass_books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/the_glass_books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0670916471&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re really quick, you can get this book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glassbooks.co.uk\/launch.html\">from Penguin<\/a> in 10 weekly paperback chunks for &pound;25. They&#8217;re serlialising it in a Dickens manner, before publishing it in hardback in January (for less than &pound;25).<br \/>\nObviously, if I&#8217;ve read the book, I&#8217;ve done none of these things &#8211; it was published in the States in August and I read the American edition.<br \/>\nBut on to the novel itself. It&#8217;s a Victorian world, set in, well a kind of England, although that&#8217;s never specified, even if there are many English names littered around the place. None of the places exist, and the geography doesn&#8217;t quite make sense. Other parts of Europe are mentioned however, since many of the characters come from these places.<br \/>\nWe follow three characters &#8211; Miss Temple, the Cardinal, and Dr Svenson as they take on the forces of mysterious cabal who seem to have developed some kind of technology with dastardly powers.<br \/>\nIf that last sentence makes the plot sound like hokum, well then, that&#8217;s because it is. There is much chasing around the &#8220;city&#8221; and the countryside, with strange parties at mansions, sinisters doctors and femme fatales.<br \/>\nAt 700 pages, there&#8217;s quite a lot of things going on, but at times it felt like the book&#8217;s universe needed opening up a little. And there was far too much of people getting knocked out and coming around unguarded in a locked room or whatever. I suspect that much of this is to give a certain pastiche feel to the book, but at times it can be a little tiring.<br \/>\nHowever, you do care about the characters and each of the ten very long chapters leaves you on a cliffhanger that almost certainly won&#8217;t resolved for many pages to come as we jump to another of the three protaganists.<br \/>\nSo overall, I&#8217;d probably wait for the paperback, unless you fancy a quite collectible series of paperbacks now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re really quick, you can get this book from Penguin in 10 weekly paperback chunks for &pound;25. They&#8217;re serlialising it in a Dickens manner, before publishing it in hardback in January (for less than &pound;25). Obviously, if I&#8217;ve read the book, I&#8217;ve done none of these things &#8211; it was published in the States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}