On some level I really want to make a joke about this and the fact that Seven Blades in Black is what prompted me to reread this book but I think the joke might just be "haha names the same" which is not a good joke or even really a joke at all.
An unexpected side effect of Seven Blades in Black is that it reminded me that this book exists, though I suspect the similarities will turn out to be superficial. I have read The Half-Made World exactly once, over 10 years ago, and my memory of it is sketchy, so I'm curious to have another look at it. Eventually. Once I finish reading some other things.
Despite the fact I‘ve read nearly half of the book in 2017, I‘m starting The Half-Made World over. Nola gives this books a 9/10 comfort rating.
panA book with a tremendous concept squandered by bland prose and wasted opportunity. You have a faction run by sentient God trains looking to shape the world into rails and efficiency and half of the world being unfinished raw creation where thoughts can shape reality and somehow, still, it's a chore to read. All the interesting stuff is background and instead you follow bland characters, one who Squidapus doesn't think even mattered to the story!
It's an amazing thing, to find a world of terrible, terrifying beauty you want to visit, to inhabit. Imaginative, unique, elegant, and strange. Worth revisiting more than once.
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