Booklog 80/2022:

[jacey]

This picks up the story of Slate, Caliban and Brenner along with Learned Edmund and Grimehug the gnole as they enter Anuket city and begin to scout around for whoever is creating the destructive clockwork boys. Slate and Caliban spend the first half of the book dancing around their romantic feelings for each other, which has its funny moments, but that just throws the seriousness of the mission into sharp relief. They’ve known all along that this is probably a suicide mission, but until now have possibly thought that there would be a way out. Now they’re not so sure. Once again this is well read by Khristine Hvam.