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Clockwork Immortal
A royal summons from the King is all it took to end the quiet, peaceful life that Sophia had made for herself. Now she has been ordered to take an airship and travel to the neighboring kingdom in order to discover the source of a secret new weapon that is thought to be utilizing ancient magic thought lost forever. But from the very start of their journey, it is clear that everyone is keeping secrets. From the stoic female knight and her squire, to the old nobleman who set them on their path. But Sophia's secret is likely the biggest one of them all. One that she has kept hidden for the past thousand years.
332 pages, Paperback
First published March 16, 2016
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May 10, 2016
3 1/2 Stars. The best way to describe this would be a steampunk fantasy. You have kingdoms and knights and you have your airships and other tech. It was a pretty good way to mix them both. In Clockwork Immortal there is a group of women who are all immortals. They range from leading Empires to hiding in plain sight. While most of them are really secondary characters, the two main are, a woman knight, the first in her country, and an Immortal named Sophia, who has be living on the down-low as a lower classed citizen. They are asked by their King to find an ancient powerful relic, and then the adventures begin.
I enjoyed this, it's a good adventure book with a lot of excitement. Plus when you throw in a woman knight and pirates, how can you go wrong? I liked the idea of the Immortals and how they each had little special abilities. There wasn't anything ground-breaking in this book, but it was unusual enough to keep my attention. My only complaint was how they got the "bad guy" at the end. It was a little convoluted, so I knocked off a half of star, but it didn't ruin the book.
There was a few times that the editing was a bit off. The wrong name was used or a few wrongly spelled words. But it was not bad enough to bother the flow of the story. The author apologizes for the editing, wasn't able to get the 800 dollars needed. But like I said it's not enough to bother your reading.
I've enjoyed everything Sam Ryan has written so far, and I will keep reading them.
P.S. I forgot to mention for romance fans out there, yes there is a romance. It's not a huge part of the book, but it's there and it's sweet.
I enjoyed this, it's a good adventure book with a lot of excitement. Plus when you throw in a woman knight and pirates, how can you go wrong? I liked the idea of the Immortals and how they each had little special abilities. There wasn't anything ground-breaking in this book, but it was unusual enough to keep my attention. My only complaint was how they got the "bad guy" at the end. It was a little convoluted, so I knocked off a half of star, but it didn't ruin the book.
There was a few times that the editing was a bit off. The wrong name was used or a few wrongly spelled words. But it was not bad enough to bother the flow of the story. The author apologizes for the editing, wasn't able to get the 800 dollars needed. But like I said it's not enough to bother your reading.
I've enjoyed everything Sam Ryan has written so far, and I will keep reading them.
P.S. I forgot to mention for romance fans out there, yes there is a romance. It's not a huge part of the book, but it's there and it's sweet.
January 17, 2019
3 stars. This was a pretty good story, although the ending seemed a bit conveniently tidy. My main problem with the book was the incredibly atrocious lack of editing. EVERY page had at least one misspelling, homonym or homonym-like word misuse, character mix-up, or grossly obvious grammar mistake. I sometimes wonder how authors write these books. Do they simply narrate and record their stories and then have some illiterate person transcribe the recording? THAT would explain the sorts of mistakes I often see; the sorts of mistakes that this book had in more abundance than I've seen in most indie or self-published books. What I can't comprehend is how any author could not have sufficient pride in their work that he/she wouldn't even bother to read through their manuscript before it was published. Even a cursory reading (which I would hope any author would exceed), would have caught the sorts of glaring errors that are present on every page of this book. The awful, to put it mildly, grammar and spelling almost made me stop reading and delete this book several times. In the end, though I finished, my rating dropped accordingly.
September 7, 2020
High fantasy with a sprinkling of airships
Entertaining enough although clockwork gives the impression of steampunk and it was really only loosely mentioned alongside airships with balloons and occasionally in conjunction with power.
I really struggled with the typos, though. Too often words were hyphenated in the middle of sentences that made no sense (such as borr-owed), or the wrong tense was used or indeed even the wrong word (too vs to). You’d be immersed in the story then suddenly a sentence would jar you out of the world you’d have lost yourself in. That said, the author has apologised in her authors note. It didn’t dampen my enthusiasm to read the story to the end (and on successive nights!)
If you can get past that, then the story is a good romp albeit with a bit of a left-field ending (maybe I just wasn’t paying enough attention). I did really like the world building aspects, so much so that I do want to know more and the Immortals of the story have definitely more to tell.
Entertaining enough although clockwork gives the impression of steampunk and it was really only loosely mentioned alongside airships with balloons and occasionally in conjunction with power.
I really struggled with the typos, though. Too often words were hyphenated in the middle of sentences that made no sense (such as borr-owed), or the wrong tense was used or indeed even the wrong word (too vs to). You’d be immersed in the story then suddenly a sentence would jar you out of the world you’d have lost yourself in. That said, the author has apologised in her authors note. It didn’t dampen my enthusiasm to read the story to the end (and on successive nights!)
If you can get past that, then the story is a good romp albeit with a bit of a left-field ending (maybe I just wasn’t paying enough attention). I did really like the world building aspects, so much so that I do want to know more and the Immortals of the story have definitely more to tell.
July 2, 2023
I really wanted to like this book as I'm a fan of Steampunk. However, even though the author says the book was read by four other people before publishing, they also appear to have not completed English to any degree of literacy.
The grammatical mistakes were so frequent that the whole flow was interrupted. It was only that I really hate not finishing books that I did not do a DNF.
If you can't afford professionals to proofread for you, at least turn on grammar check on your word software as that will pick up a lot of the errors (oh so many) which would have been a much better outcome of this book.
The grammatical mistakes were so frequent that the whole flow was interrupted. It was only that I really hate not finishing books that I did not do a DNF.
If you can't afford professionals to proofread for you, at least turn on grammar check on your word software as that will pick up a lot of the errors (oh so many) which would have been a much better outcome of this book.
February 24, 2019
This was a great escape.
I loved all the characters in this story. Yes, even the bad guys. The twists and turns were awesome and if there was a second book, I'd totally read it without question.
I loved all the characters in this story. Yes, even the bad guys. The twists and turns were awesome and if there was a second book, I'd totally read it without question.
July 19, 2020
Great book. A really intriguing plot with romance on the side. The story has a bit of a thriller side, with interesting characters and fantastic segments.
July 19, 2016
This should have been a script
Or a screen play. And I say this because I can hardly call this a book when 70 percent of it is dialogue and the rest- that being the descriptions and long tangents- takes up more space than they really need to. I hardly found anything of substance reading this, and some of the (for lack of a better word) immature attempts at comedy only served to remind me of what a chore reading this was. As for the plot itself, it wasn't amazing, but it had its interesting moments. The author should try her hand at screenwriting, because their style doesn't work in this medium. I hope he or she improves in the future, but as for now, "Clockwork Immoral" is not a book I would recommend.
Or a screen play. And I say this because I can hardly call this a book when 70 percent of it is dialogue and the rest- that being the descriptions and long tangents- takes up more space than they really need to. I hardly found anything of substance reading this, and some of the (for lack of a better word) immature attempts at comedy only served to remind me of what a chore reading this was. As for the plot itself, it wasn't amazing, but it had its interesting moments. The author should try her hand at screenwriting, because their style doesn't work in this medium. I hope he or she improves in the future, but as for now, "Clockwork Immoral" is not a book I would recommend.
June 1, 2016
Just wow
This book was amazing. I loved the mix of magic and technology and fantasy. It was really wonderful how all of it was mixed together. I also loved the six immortals, they were a great bunch of women!
This book was amazing. I loved the mix of magic and technology and fantasy. It was really wonderful how all of it was mixed together. I also loved the six immortals, they were a great bunch of women!
June 6, 2016
exquisitely conceived, brilliantly executed. one of the most intricate and interesting Steampunk fantasies I have ever read. the complex scheming and intricate planning keep the reader guessing and interested.
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