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    Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon

    By Mark Hodder

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    It is 1863, but not the one it should be. Time has veered wildly off course, and now the first moves are being made that will lead to a devastating world war and the fall of the British Empire. Caught in a tangled web of cause, effect, and inevitability, little does Burton realize that the stakes are far higher than even he suspects. A final confrontation comes in the mist-shrouded Mountains of the Moon, in war- torn Africa of 1914, and in Green Park, London, where, in the year 1840, Burton must face the man responsible for altering time: Spring Heeled Jack! Burton and Swinburne's third adventure is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and bizarre events, completing the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack and The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man. From the Trade Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPyr
    Release dateJan 10, 2012
    ISBN9781616145361
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    Reviews for Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon

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    • 4/5
      Sir Richard Francis Burton and his comrade Algernon Charles Swinburne are on a mission for what remains of the British Empire in 1863. Eugenicists discovered ways to grow monstrous insects then turn them into fighting machines, and the Germans are using this technology to find the Mountains of the Moon, deep in the heart of Africa. Their goal: the last of the three eyes of Naga, said to grant is possessor power to manipulate world events. Burton and Swinburne must reach the Eye before the Germans. Burton, however, finds himself traveling two different paths in time to reach the Mountains of the Moon: one in which his team races against the Germans, and the other—years later—in which the Germans control most of Africa with their horrific Eugenicist experiments and are at war with the straggling British Empire."Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon" confused me at the beginning, with its juxtapositions of characters in time; I finally got that hang of it around 50-60 pages in, but the transitions back and forth were still a bit awkward. It took a few paragraphs for me to realize about which timeline I was reading. For me, that was a big drawback to the book. Even so, I liked the incredibly descriptive writing and the imaginative creatures: mixtures of plant and humans, as well as large insects morphed into everyday machinery and vehicles. I recommend this if you enjoy tales of sci-fi and adventure with a somewhat historical bent.
    • 4/5
      Probably the weakest of the series so far, but still awesome.
    • 5/5
      This book, this series and these characters are unforgettable. Even after starting my next read I still cannot stop thinking about the events in this book. The writing as always was superb and the world fleshed out and growing every book. In this volume the characters develop so well and unexpectedly that it brought the series to a new level. Burton in particular develops to the point where he is not at all the King’s Agent met in book 1. I cannot stress enough how enjoyable this series is and I recommend it highly to anyone looking for excellent writing, bizarre characters and all the trappings of a steampunk time travel world.
    • 4/5
      My review for this book really should go for the whole series, because they are inextricably tied together in one giant story arc, but there's a couple of things I wanted to note for this book alone.The series is excellent. It's well thought-out, fun and dramatic (it's not easy to pull those two of in conjunction, and I admire it when it's done well), and I loved the characters. They were interesting, had depth, fit the setting extremely well, and I felt that I hadn't seen too many characters like these before (Especially Swinburne, who almost always made me laugh). I also loved the extraordinary worldbuilding of a Victorian London a little bit (well, a lot) different from our own (especially the inventions!). The author has done an excellent job of playing with famous historical figures and bringing them to life in that setting. That said, especially in the beginning of each book, I had a harder time getting through the pages - some of that was probably circumstantial (reading when I'm tired, which I do a lot more lately), but it did take a little while for me to get into them.For third book specifics:This book is a little darker, and a little sadder than the others. Also, it explores the changed history set up in the the other two by going back and forth between the 1863 African expedition, and Africa beset by World War I. The story structure is actually very well done, with the World War I timeline revealing information about the past as it goes along, and building up Burton's final choices. However, I can say I always looked forward to getting back to the 1863 timeline more than the WWI timeline. This probably is more of a bias on my part - I'm not usually a fan of anything set in that era (or World War II, or any war after, really). But I think Hodder did a good job of it, and the information presented during those sections is actually vital to the story. But for me, those sections were a lot harder to start and get through than the others.All in all, though, this series was an excellent read, and I'll be looking forward to more books by Mark Hodder in the future.
    • 3/5
      While I greatly enjoyed the first two books of this series the question always at the back of my mind was whether I really wanted to read six books of this stuff. With the third installment the answer would seem to be no, as this is just not as much fun as the first two books and it seems to be morphing from a gonzo alternative-history romp into a time-war scenario, as Richard Francis Burton becomes Schrodinger's Man and has to try and put right the damage Spring-Heeled Jack has done to the structure of time. We'll see but I'm going to have a very short hook in regards to the fourth volume whenever I get around to checking it out.
    • 4/5
      This was a good book and is perpetually tied in with the first two books.I really liked how the author started out with one incident and then wove it into an insane blowup in the end. It was impossible to guess where the story was going at any particular time which kept me reading. The inventions were outrageously ingenious and I really liked how he worked H. G. Wells into the story. The trek across Africa was a bit long and maybe could have been shortened a little, but it was a very good book all said and done.In order to fully enjoy this book you will need to read the first two, Spring Heeled Jack, and the Clockwork Man. I can’t wait to see what the author has in store for his next book.