Butler, Dave The Giant’s Seat (Clockwork Charlie #2), 339 pages. Knopf (Random), 2017. $17. Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.
Charlie and his friends are on the run from the Iron Cog. Befriended by a clan of dwarves and then imprisoned by another clan – Charlie is constantly on the run, barely staying ahead of their enemies, all the while searching for a clue to the whereabouts of his bap’s best friend and co-inventor, who might have some idea of how to defeat the Cog for good.
Butler writes a breakneck-paced book with very little pause for breath. The highlight of the steampunk and fantasy mixture is Charlie’s friends and their disparate personalities. I am looking forward to the next book just so that I can read about them. The Iron Cog enemy is really an abstraction for all of the danger they create.
EL, MS – OPTIONAL. Cindy, Library Teacher