Tinker, by Wen Spencer
Aug. 17th, 2007 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keilexandraTinker
by Wen Spencer (wen_spencer)
340 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/SF
At first I only read the first two pages and put it down, because it felt very much like weird urban fantasy-SF and didn't seem like my kind of thing. But one night I was bored and in the mood for a romance, and I remembered an Alphan recommending this book for the romance, so I flipped to somewhere in the middle and started reading.
Wow, that was a long sentence. Anyway, it hooked me. I read to the end and then went back and read the beginning, and it suddenly seemed a lot more dynamic. Because I was already invested in the characters--Tinker and Windwolf especially--so I cared. The beginning takes a while to establish that this is a fantasy-cyberpunk romance, so it came close to losing me because I don't much like cyberpunk. Or anything-punk, actually, because mannerpunk is fantasy of manners, damnit.
Only side-effect of reading way in the wrong order: I didn't like Riki very much. But I loved Tinker's real name, especially the scene with the NSA agents. And the elves were cool, though their names grated on my nerves sometimes.
The cover, by the way, is hideous. Ignore it; not the author's fault.
by Wen Spencer (
wen_spencer)340 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/SF
At first I only read the first two pages and put it down, because it felt very much like weird urban fantasy-SF and didn't seem like my kind of thing. But one night I was bored and in the mood for a romance, and I remembered an Alphan recommending this book for the romance, so I flipped to somewhere in the middle and started reading.
Wow, that was a long sentence. Anyway, it hooked me. I read to the end and then went back and read the beginning, and it suddenly seemed a lot more dynamic. Because I was already invested in the characters--Tinker and Windwolf especially--so I cared. The beginning takes a while to establish that this is a fantasy-cyberpunk romance, so it came close to losing me because I don't much like cyberpunk. Or anything-punk, actually, because mannerpunk is fantasy of manners, damnit.
Only side-effect of reading way in the wrong order: I didn't like Riki very much. But I loved Tinker's real name, especially the scene with the NSA agents. And the elves were cool, though their names grated on my nerves sometimes.
The cover, by the way, is hideous. Ignore it; not the author's fault.
