Cherie Priest has been doing a bizarre mashup of alternate history, zombie, steampunk, and Old West tropes for sometime now. It’s fun stuff which is popcorn literature at its very best. The latest is Jacaranda which Richard Dansky says that ‘ the most recent entry in Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century alternate history, reads like a movie. This isn’t a bad thing, per se. What it does mean, though, is that the beats of the story come in precise and familiar places, and that fans of the people-getting-picked-off-in-a-spooky-location cinematic subgenre are probably going to spot both the ending and the denouement coming.’
Intrigued? If so, read his review here.
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