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Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders (The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin) Paperback – July 2, 2013

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  • Series: The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin (Book 1)
  • Paperback: 456 pages
  • Publisher: 47North (July 2, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1611099188
  • ISBN-13: 978-1611099188
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.3 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (168 customer reviews)
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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful
About 60 pages in, it gets fun
By Shala Kerrigan TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on April 13, 2013
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It took about 60-70 pages to really get into this book. Those first pages were read 10 pages at a time because it so slow.
Those first pages are partly scene setting, explaining a bit about the world it's set in. Our own, some 300 years in the future after technology has regressed back to steam engines. It doesn't actually explain why that happened in those pages, that's touched on later after the story picks up.
A big part of those pages was describing two female crew members. Even the glorious and amazingly brave Captain who seems to have been described in great detail was only sketched compared to the descriptions of the 2 crew members. If a picture is worth a 1000 words, I could draw a picture of those women. Other characters, including some that turn out to have fairly large roles in the story got a paragraph of physical description.

I still gave it 4 stars, because after you get past that, it picks up into swashbuckling, steampunk, over the top adventure. The details were well done and the science was researched. The sword play and gun fights were also described so I was able to visualize the action.

If the first 60 pages took me a week, the rest of the book took a few hours. It was a whole lot of fun, and one that I will actually recommend to some people. The rest of the book, if you enjoy that sort of thing, does make up for the first part. I will be getting the next book to read. There are questions enough for a series, but it doesn't end off with a cliffhanger.
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46 of 54 people found the following review helpful
Trying Too Hard.
By Eoghann Irving on July 2, 2013
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This book wants to be the most steampunkiest steampunk tale you have ever read

Romulus Buckle for example is by no means the most ridiculous name you will see in this book but doesn't it sound steampunk?

The majority of the novel takes place in a Zeppelin. There's no electricity, but boy is there lots of steam and big clanking machines. Oh yes, this novel plants its flag proudly on top of Mount Steampunk and lets it wave.

So what I'm saying is that it may be trying a bit too hard. Particularly near the beginning where we get pages (no exaggeration) of description as a method to introduce characters. Particular attention is paid to their hats which contain some sort of brass tubing or something. I honestly couldn't tell you what because I basically tuned it out after the third sentence on the subject.

There's far too much telling and not enough showing in the early part of the book and it kind of saps my basic goodwill to the core idea of a Zeppelin Captain and his crew. By the time the plot actually started moving I was getting impatient.

And the plot incidentally is fine. They're on a daring mission to rescue their adopted father/clan leader from a nefarious foe. Nothing wrong with that. Along the way there's lots of derring do and feats of bravery. Also good. And the author gradually feeds in some twists and questions that are intended for future books. The world they're playing in gets a bit more depth as we go along too, though not a huge amount. But enough to make it sound interesting.

But here's the killer problem. I don't actually care about any of these people. They have no depth or really much in the way of emotion. I'm told they feel things but I don't feel it with them.Read more ›
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25 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Scattered and difficult to read
By Karissa Eckert on April 30, 2013
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I got a copy of this book to review through the Amazon Vine program. This is the first book in The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin series. I love steampunk books and was excited to read this one. Unfortunately I ended up not finishing it, it was just too hard to read and I could not stay engaged in the story.

Captain Romulus Buckle and his crew are taking their ship, the Pneumatic Zeppelin, on a mission to rescue their leader Balthazar Crankshaft. Their mission leads them across lands devastated by some alien war that has left the Earth in a post-apocalyptic mess.

I ended up getting about 1/3 of the way through this book before I decided it was time to set it aside. It was just so hard to read and I was absolutely not at all interested in it. Rather than being sucked into the story, I constantly felt like this book was trying to push me away from the story (if that makes any sense at all)...I constantly had to force myself to engage with this book.

The book throws a plethora of characters at you from the get-go. All of them are hard to picture and engage with. They all seem like interesting characters when they are introduced, but you bounce between them so quickly that it is hard to get a good grasp on the characters' personalities.

A big problem with this book is how it is parsed into such tiny chapters and how each chapter bounces between different character POVs. Just as soon as I felt like I was actually engaging in the story, then suddenly that chapter was over and we were onto another character's perspective of the battle. Many of the chapters are only a couple pages long. It really fractured the story and made it hard to follow and engage with.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

Four Stars

well written and well plotted with interesting characters and plot.

Published 1 month ago by Lance Michaels
dull

Bah, it was ok but not much more. Here's the thing, the writing seemed fine but everything was waaaaaay over described and nothing of significance really happened. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Sadie Forsythe
Five Stars

OK

Published 3 months ago by Rick
but I couldn't get over how dull and recycled the story was

I gave it a shot, but I couldn't get over how dull and recycled the story was. It was like someone tried to sell a video game and got rejected, so they wrote a book instead. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Alejandro Alberto Roacho
Steampunk.....zeppelins....Martians!

I love the build-up of characters including backstories without making it feel that way! The dynamic between "siblings" was fabulous. Read more

Published 3 months ago by C. Lea
The free ones always get you!!!!!

Liked this book enough to purchase second in the serious. I hope Mr Preston can hold up to his first book.

Published 4 months ago by Kindle Customer
Four Stars

Entertaining engaging high-spirited read.

Published 5 months ago by Dennis H Fieldman
Good read

Story was interesting. It kept moving not to wordy that it stifled the pace of the book but descriptive enough to paint a picture of an interesting back drop of and airship in a... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Kindle Customer
Four Stars

Great read.

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Romulus Buckle

This is a great book, sort of a cross between Horatio Hornblower and Indiana Jones. The characters were so well done and the action was non stop. Read more

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