I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading Arcadia Snips. I have never read a steampunk novel before and began this one hesitantly. I was a little confused to begin with, but soon found myself enthalled within the novel, and couldn’t put it down until I finished it. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and was not at all disappointed with the conclusion as I sometimes find with books. A very enjoyable read that I would recommend wholeheartedly.
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I remain an indifferent reader of caper novels and am not particularly enamored of ruffians or dashing ne’er-do-wells, but Wright made me care about his cast of unlikely characters. The dialogue is superb, the characterization spot-on and the plot moves with both speed and poise, just as it should in a novel of this kind. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, it’s extremely well-done. Plus (and a big plus it is), the formatting is clean and elegant, not always a given online or in e-books.
If you are a fan of space adventure novels with too-clever smuggler-captains, you owe it to yourself to drop the $3.50 on the e-book version of Pay Me, Bug! You could read it for free online, but you can pay the author the compliment of buying it, and in my opinion, you should.
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Yamauchi is a ninja master from Japan who fled enemies both ninja and samurai to teach at a martial arts school in Greece. In the prologue, he arrives in a village being sacked by barbarians, in time only to rescue a baby girl from the fate of her village. Jump forward 15 years and the story begins with Sasha a young girl, certain of herself and her skills as a ninja. She doesn’t like the academic classes at her school—in particular, Greek and various "dead languages". Oddly, she seems to think everyone speaks English.
And so the story begins. The writing’s not bad, but the wish-fulfilment aspect is palpable, as is the sense that the story exists entirely out of time. Apparently, at 12 chapters, the story is already complete. Probably worth a look to fans of Naruto. Probably not for anyone else.
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