Metal from Heaven

Pros

• If you enjoyed this and haven’t read it yet, you’d probably like Metal From Heaven by August Clarke. It’s not quite as fully baked, but it’s just as wild and audacious a ride.
• Metal From Heaven: Messy, but I enjoyed the ambition and the prose is to die for.
• Yes, I loved it. I think the comps are pretty solid in that I would largely recommend this to The Locked Tomb crowd – I saw a lot of similarities to both Gideon and Harrow (the books, not the characters, tho kind of that too) and I think...
• wow that book was a wild ride!
• I really hope Metal from Heaven not only gets the nomination, but wins. Among the most unique reads I read last year

Cons

• I thought the first half of the story felt disjointed and poorly-paced, but while the second half was less disjointed, it pretty aggressively did not work for me. ... I thought the story descended entirely into self-parody when they star...
• I did not like popular favorites Metal From Heaven or The Ministry of Time
• I felt like the first half was poorly paced, and that the prose was trying so hard to be visceral that it didn't do a great job actually describing things... around the halfway point, it devolved into an extended sex and murder party tha...
• A very ambitious book with a great, distinctive prose style and anti-capitalist themes. The pacing is inconsistent and some plot elements make little sense, but I enjoyed its lyrical prose and sheer ballsiness.
• Metal From Heaven by August Clarke: A very ambitious book with a great, distinctive prose style and anti-capitalist themes. The pacing is inconsistent and some plot elements make little sense, but I enjoyed its lyrical prose and sheer ba...