28) The God Engines - John Scalzi (used hb)
Where? Chapters
Why?
It was the cover that caught my eye. A man in chains guarded by hooded priests. The expresion of malign amusment on the chanied man's face put me in mind of Loki (everyone's favourite god, right?).
I've been looking for a 'way in' to Scalzi for a while (keeping with a theme here, you cannot find any of his books on the shevles here, save second hand) and since this book literally had me cooing over it and stroking the spine (shout out to Subterranian Press who took some (very deserved) criticism recently for publishing OSC's Halmet's Ghost, but can be relied on put together damn beautiful books) it seemed as good an entry point as I was ever likely to find.
(just to prove that sometimes you can judge a book by its cover this has more than lived up to my hopes.)
Sealing my decision I flipped to the first page and the opening line that almost every review has quoted
It was time to whip the god.
Yes, I thought, this is indeed calculated to my interests.
The Damage: €4.99
Total Spend €293.87
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