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Had a really hard time getting into and finishing this one. Finally got hooked towards the end, but contemplating if I‘ll bother with the rest of the series. It‘s been almost a month since completing and still no burning desire to see what happens (I actually forgot I even read it), so it doubtful.

Intriguing scifi book. Well written and fascinating concept. Will definitely read the rest of the trilogy.

Somewhere between a pick and so so. I think that I need to give up on fantasy for a while. It's not that this book is bad. It takes a concept that alchemy works to create clockwork automatons which allows the Dutch to take over the world, with the exception of France which is holding out in Canada. An investigation into free will and through the eyes of a variety of characters including a servitor who has been freed from its geas's. My issue is

Sitting at my desk on a Monday with a second coffee trying to concentrate, while I know I would rather be at home reading. Have only started the Mechanical but it good so far and also a nice design.

So good. I'm not always a fan of sci fi but this was engrossing and a fascinating look at free will. Can't wait to read the next one!

Cannot put this bad boy down. One of the most fascinating insights into free will and the toll it can take. "Freedom felt like… nothing. Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of compulsion, the absence of agony."

I could barely but this book down to go to work, and I'm slightly in love with a Jax the rebel robot.