![]() ![]() It was a wholly implausible book, and I'm not talking about the fact that the dead are rising in 1876 Philadelphia.ġ. The characters themselves are two-dimensional. The setting and the characters's behaviors are inconsistent. ![]() This book thinks itself a "steampunk" novel. The world building is weird and incomplete. This book is strange, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. ![]() I feel like I could walk around with a sharp stick and kill a bunch myself because they were so unconvincing as objects of abject terror. If you want terrifying zombie action, turn away now, the zombies in this book are not dangerous, they are corpses, but they're of the "first episode of Walking Dead" sort of boring, which is to say they're rotting, they're shambling, they smell REALLY, REALLY bad, but they're completely unterrifying in every way. If I had to choose one word to describe this book, it would be unconvincing. See, in China, girls keep their heads bald like the boys, yeah? Then when we’re the age to become a woman, we bind our feet and grow out our hair.WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? THIS. “It means that as long as I still shave my hair, I’m free. ![]() “In China we say, ‘The girl with the full hair is not as free as the girl with the bare head.’" ![]()
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