PaperbackReader reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …
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5 stars
Wonderfully done. I was right, too: While the story is, indeed, excellent, it's eclipsed by the vivid and arresting storytelling itself. Like Danielewski's "House of Leaves," Clarke's "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell," and Miéville's "Perdido Street Station," the delivery transcends the story. I can't wait to read the second book.