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| Original Title: | The Iron Thorn |
| ISBN: | 0385738293 (ISBN13: 9780385738293) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Iron Codex #1 |
| Characters: | Aoife Grayson, Conrad Grayson |
| Setting: | Lovecraft |
Caitlin Kittredge
Audiobook | Pages: 492 pages Rating: 3.57 | 5853 Users | 729 Reviews
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In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, her time is growing shorter by the day.Aoife Grayson's family is unique, in the worst way—every one of them, including her mother and her elder brother Conrad, has gone mad on their 16th birthday. And now, a ward of the state, and one of the only female students at the School of Engines, she is trying to pretend that her fate can be different.
Identify Of Books The Iron Thorn (Iron Codex #1)
| Title | : | The Iron Thorn (Iron Codex #1) |
| Author | : | Caitlin Kittredge |
| Book Format | : | Audiobook |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 492 pages |
| Published | : | February 22nd 2011 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers (first published January 1st 2011) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Young Adult. Paranormal. Dystopia. Magic |
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Ratings: 3.57 From 5853 Users | 729 ReviewsWrite-Up Of Books The Iron Thorn (Iron Codex #1)
So, At first I was compleatly entranced by this book. The writing was beautiful and descriptive, and the plot was fast passed and interesting. The detail and live of the story seemed to come alive! This book was looking like it would be another of my all-time favorites... .....Then I got a little past the middle and my opinion changed dramatically. Im not sure what happened hear but the main character became almost unbearably winy, and self-centered. I was shocked at how fast everything wentAoife Grayson is a ward of the state in a city / world that terms every type of magic to be heretical. Any mention or practice is dealt with severely and no one can believe in anything but the engine works. There is only the mechanical science that exists today. As a ward of the state, whose mother has gone mad with dreams of magical beings, she is sent to the engine training school. But Aoife is starting to have dreams too. When her mentally ill brother, still at large, contacts her and asks
I facepalmed at least 3 times. It started off well enough, and Kittredge is a talented storyteller (in that the overall story was interesting), but I find her writing abrasive. She leaves details out, sometimes makes improper verb tense choices which make the reading confusing (ie. he saw instead of he had seen), makes clicheed dialogue choices, and is lacking in motivation for her characters, who do everything they do solely to either help or hinder main character Aoife, as it suits the
Rating: 2 stars only. The extra one star is given to the creative homages to H P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu myths. How can this book be so dull? Even duller than End of Days by Susan Ee!?(1) The heroine Aoife Garyson is an annoying, ungrateful brat: She is supposed to be a charity case without the protection of her family, an almost-orphan living off the charity offered by the city's welfare system. Yet she acts so entitled, ungrateful, unworldly and naive for an entire book. Not to mention she
What a very unique adventure you'll find in The Iron Thorn. Set in an alternate Boston, Lovecraft, almost has the feel of a dystopian society. Where the government has control of its people and something as simple as believing in a fairytale will deem you a heretic. Aiofe is worried now that she is on the cusp of her 16th birthday - the same age that both her mother and older brother went mad. When she receives a message from her brother a few weeks before her birthday she grabs her BFF and they
This is a very dark fantasy/steampunk, set in a world in which magic was discovered instead of nuclear power. Rather than embrace the new energy, a government led by President McCarthy is trying to eradicate it and the people--ghouls, vampires, and others--that thrive on it. Aoife Grayson is an engineering student under suspicion by her schoolmasters and living with the fear of the madness that took her mother and brother and may well take her. Determined at last to seek out her unknown father
The Iron Thorn by Caitlin KittredgeDelacorte Press, 2011492 pagesYA; Steampunk; Fantasy4.5/5 starsSource: WonI wanted to read The Iron Thorn because I remembered how much I had enjoyed Kittredges story in Kiss Me Deadly. Some of the same things I remember liking about that story reappear here-a sympathetic heroine, evocative descriptions, and a story that drew me in. However as a full-length novel, there is more opportunity for world-building and character and plot development.The world is a
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