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Zombies east!
the Clockwork Century takes another trip East - this time, settling on president Grant and former President Lincoln as they try to work out how to end the long-running Civil War without making things worse. But when the Fiddlehead - an early computer with a very specific task - suggests that something far more terrible will end the war AND the country if they don't act, it becomes a race against both time and greed for a variety of characters, new and old.
I think this might be my favorite Clockwork Century book. I love the characters, but the action is really what grabs me. There's fire fights, chases, battles, and more literal desperate races against time. the truth about Sap and what happens to people who use it is becoming more and more undeniable.
In a lot of ways, this is the macro view of the story. While we've been seeing pieces of the story and how it affects people, most of the stories have been focused on much smaller scopes - generally in one city. This one is taking the larger view, of just how very wrong things could go.
If there's one thing I have to take points off for, it's that some of the most basic questions from earlier in the series still seem to be unanswered, and I'm not sure we'll get ones. But I guess we'll take what we get and be grateful for it. ;-)
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