Ink, Iron and Glass, by Gwendolyn Clare

I was excited on seeing the blurb of this book and was expecting so much more going in. The story at the outset had it all...a concept that could be worked into something wonderful! Worlds that can come into existence simply by being written about, by specialists known as scriptologists. Technology worked into fantasy....a sub genre called steampunk fantasy.

The book started off interestingly enough with the main character, Elsa, being from a created world called Veldana. When her mother, a great scriptologist, is kidnapped from her world and brought to Earth, Elsa has no other option but to follow her to Earth and look for her. In the process she makes friends, for the first time in her life, who help her in her search.  However, as the story progresses, it soon becomes clear that the author has somehow lost the main thread of the story and is bringing in a lot of characters and details with a too long drawn out discussion. By the time the story almost picks up again, it's too late as the book is already too long by now, and the author rushes in to bring the climax and the ending. Even the cliffhanger ending, seems, well a bit too rushed!

Rating: 3/5 (added an extra star as its a debut novel)

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