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Chargement... The Martian Emperorpar Andrew Mayne
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The thrilling second Chronological Man Adventure! When a giant airship descends on New York City in 1892 and threatens destruction if the world doesn't submit to the Martian flag, it's up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer to find out what forces are at work. From the dangerous basement fan-tan parlors of Chinatown to the top of the Statue of Liberty's torch, Smith and his brilliant assistant, April Malone, will have to unravel the clues and avoid danger lurking behind every corner. To stop the menace they'll need to enlist the help of Theodore Roosevelt and other early twentieth-century heroes. The second book in The Chronological Man series, The Martian Emperor combines mystery, airship battles and backroom Tammany Hall politics against the backdrop of a world on the verge of war. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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April Malone continues to be delightfully resourceful. Smith is--well, it feels a bit like the author is cheating, because he clearly knows who Smith is, but just won't tell us, and I'm just getting tired of waiting.
The biggest problem with this book for me, though, was that I had a much harder time with suspension of disbelief. Can you really hide that there? Wait, where did the bad guys get *that*? And when I got to the end, I realized that the bad guys are just as mysterious as Smith, with powers just as mysterious, and (as I mentioned) I'm getting a little tired of that. When the protagonists are too mysterious, you don't know the rules of the game, and the author can (and in this case does) pull rabbits of of a hat, so I'm left thinking: wait, can he do that? It feels like violating the fundamental rules of detective stories.
It just didn't hold together as well as The Monster in the Mist. Thinking back on it now, I feel like this is supposed to me more like the comic book sagas (or The Matrix or the never-ending X men saga, the ultimate fruit of that), where all the physics is dubious, and the ideas are cool but not well thought out. Since I never was able to get into that genre due to suspension of disbelief issues, I didn't honestly like this all that much.
Andrew Mayne is a fantastic writer, so he knows how to pull a story together. If you can get beyond the doubts, you'd probably enjoy this. (