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The Wonder Engine

Clocktaur War, Book 2

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The Wonder Engine

By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
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In the sequel to Clockwork Boys, Slate, Brenner, Caliban and Learned Edmund have arrived in Anuket City, the source of the mysterious Clockwork Boys. They even managed to build some trust in each other's skills. That trust is built on quicksand as the risks continue to escalate. But the secrets they're keeping could well destroy them, before the city even gets the chance...

Old foes and consequences of past decisions lurk in the shadows. Every team member's skills are required to succeed - even more so if they hope to survive.

The Wonder Engine never lets us forget our funny, broken group even as the action propels our heroes to new highs and lows. It shows that making the most of the rest of your life can be rewarding - no matter how many mechanical abominations you need to destroy to get there.

©2018 Ursula Vernon (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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Engaging Storyline • Humorous Narrative • Intricate Worldbuilding • Witty Writing • Great Voice Range
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The desperate heist story is a classic for a reason. Mismatched protagonists thrown together on a mission of likely death, learning to work together or betray each other... it's a great story and it's still great here, where a big heaping dollop of humor makes it just so much fun!

if Terry Pratchett wrote wages of fear

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Fabulous, absolutely fabulous narrator.

The story wrap up is also fairly good with 2 problems. Too much filler,too much internal dialog. And every stupid person ‘pinches the bridge of their damn noses’ in frustration, anger, fear, sadness, etc. The nose bridge pinching happens 2-3 DOZEN times. It’s both waaayyy too often and something I’ve never seen anyone do in real life. Including me!

Nearly as good as the first

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I am never disappointed with the writing style of T. Kingfisher. This book was not at the top of my list, but glad I got it as it tied up all of the loose ends in Book 1

Good storytelling

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Great sequel to the clockwork boys.
Characters are funny, flawed and I wish there were more books with them in it and in this well developed world. It filled in blanks in the history from Swordheart (my favourite from this world)

Rich world building and great characters

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I have come to enjoy King fisher's witty writing and complex characters. Khristine Hver has become one of my favorite voice actors as she has a great range and really brings characters to life. The Paladin series is great listen.

witty writing and great performance

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The story was a bit hard to get through in the beginning but it's definitely worth listening to both book 1 and 2. I really enjoyed the banter between the characters. My favorites were the knolls such funny little creatures. I really enjoy this authors books and I do recommend listen to them.

Good listen

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the performance is great as is the general plot. there is a love story the runs throughout that overstayed it's welcome at times and dragged down the pacing. worth reading for sure, but be aware that 2 of the main characters are incredibly horny for each other

great story

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A fun read, had me laughing and crying. Binged both books in two days.
"Shut up, Brenner."

Enjoyable

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I love all of these books. It was very cool to hear more about the Clocktaur Wars after reading Saint Of Steel. Admittedly, I really sorely missed the voice/narrator from the Saint Of Steel books. His voice was so soothing. As well, the discrepancies in the pronunciation of places/things and in the knoll speech between the two sets of books also got on my nerves juuust a little. I also really do wish they were longer and more detailed but thats because i like them so much. However, this is all pickiness; the stories are great and I will be re-reading.

love these books

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Glad it was a 2 part story so the characters could be more developed. I liked how the details trickled out versus everything just being dumped in the beginning. I think listening to the fine narration gave the story an added layer of its own.

Great story and performance

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