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Tin
Tin | P?draig Kenny
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Christopher is 'Proper': a real boy with a real soul, orphaned in a fire. He works for an engineer, a maker of the eccentric, loyal and totally individual mechanicals who are Christopher's best friends. But after an accident, Christopher realizes he isn't as Proper as he thought ...
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Tin | Padraig Kenny
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This was a Steampunk styled world where mechanicals are some how imbued with sentience via glyphs etched on the metal of their bodies and real humans are considered “proper.“
I really enjoyed the story I got in an alternate Britain with a bunch of misfit mechanicals setting out on an adventure to find the greatest maker of the age but I was frustrated with the lack of a coherent “magic system“ explanation.
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Tin | P?draig Kenny
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This is an incredibly boring proof cover, but the story inside is charming and involving. #currentlyreading #mayrelease2018🇦🇺 #chickenhouse #scholasticaustralia #preview #middlefiction #sciencefiction #adventure #rso

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