Book review: Tinker

Today's book review is Tinker by Wen Spencer.

This is a bit hard to review.  At the bottom, it's a fast paced adventure, which is good, mixed with too much awkwardness of a teenager trying to deal with growing up, all set in a fairly clever world that pulls off a really good blend on SF and fantasy, magic and technology.  The way the world works strains my suspension of disbelief, but I'm willing to go with it.  The actual plot, though, is a little more annoying, with a few more deus ex machina twists than it really needed.  I doubt that a nitpicky reader could like this book, but fortunately, I am not a nitpicky reader.  Some things bothered me, but in general, as long as there's enough in the story that I want to believe, and the writing can carry me through, I can put up with a lot.  As I write this, I realize that I really want to tolerate the hard to believe stuff and the plot problems so that I can encounter more of the cool ideas in the setting.  7 out of 10.

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