Boneshaker

Ooooooo.....yall this one is GOOD! I finished Boneshaker yesterday and wow. I loved this story. I don't want to give anything away so I'll save all the good bits for class but I do have one complaint. It's not so much a complaint as me whining though. I know Andy said that the sequel isn't really a sequel because it doesn't follow the same characters but I almost wish it would. I have grown attached to these characters and I want to know what happens to them!! I have a good enough guess for Briar and Zeke but what about the Doornails? I NEED TO KNOW!!! The epilogue is very unclear about this. Something I loved about this novel was that there was no love story. No one was wasting time "falling in love" which I appreciated. Don't get me wrong, as a girl I love a great love interest but I'm glad the author didn't just throw one in here to have a love element. I don't think it would have worked. That's something I wish other authors would realize too: you don't always need a love story. I think if there had been one, I wouldn't have enjoyed the story as much.

If this is how all steampunk novels are, then I want to read more of the genre. I still don't really quite understand what justifies the steampunk genre. How is it different from regular sci-fi?

And on a totally random note: this is the kind of story that should be made into a movie. This (to me anyhow) is new and different. When I think about the movies that are coming out now (Twilight in particular), I wonder why Hollywood would prefer to make the same old movies instead of something as cool and unique as this novel. When I was reading it, I was freaked out I-am-Legend-style so I could see it working on a scary movie level as well as sci-fi.