Blood Engines by Tim Pratt

Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Hrm. I’m about to say a bunch of positive-sounding things about this book that cumulatively did not actually manage to make me like it much. It’s an urban fantasy quest story set in San Francisco, a city I am quite fond of, and it has wiz-bang worldbuilding. Seriously, the richness of the uncountable magic systems is really something. The book also has a very casual approach to sexuality and kink that is almost entirely nonjudgey or exploitative. Oh, and the female lead – she’s not a heroine – is a serious BAMF, and it’s not even in the and she has a vagina! way.



Still, eh. No soul. No there. I read it a week ago and the details are already fading, because it was all flash and dazzle. Flashy and dazzley, yeah, sure, but, you know.





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