Sunday, March 1, 2009

The Reliquary Ring

The Reliquary Ring
Cherith Baldry
0330492071
2004

Set in an alternative Venice, where Genics, genetically engineered creatures designed to serve, are an abomination to the upstanding citizens and the Church, but where they are also intelligent, thinking people, caught in a world they didn't ask for.

I thought this would be a quite bit of fluff, judging from the cover, but it was better than I expected.  The was a large cast of characters, and while the genics were fleshed out, I felt that most of the humans were a little cliched, used as a backdrop to a story that rightly centred on the more interesting plight of the genics.

Date finished: 21/02/09
Year total: 7

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