God of Clocks

I want to say something nice, but all I get is me scratching my head at this, it's supposed to be the 3rd book where all my questions are to be answered, and yet it irks me, ummmmm my ebook says 287 pages, but the one in goodreads says 367, so I maybe just maybe, there were some resolutions from the missing pages

God of Clocks picks up soon after [b:Iron Angel 2598001 Iron Angel (Deepgate Codex #2) Alan Campbell http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266953288s/2598001.jpg 2895252] leaves off. It doesn't really add much that's new, though the battle continues, and some of the mysteries are revealed. I'm sorry to say that it's only some. Campbell wove in a number of intriguing threads in books 1 and 2. He leaves quite a lot of them loose in this third volume. There are two other books in this universe, [b:Lye Street 957379 Lye Street Alan Campbell http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266682207s/957379.jpg 942289] and [b:Damnation for Beginners 14478265 Damnation for Beginners Alan Campbell http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1337982084s/14478265.jpg 20120798], but they appear to be relatively free standing. With that, I'd have to count this closing book of the trilogy as a disappointment. Where Iron Angel fulfilled its promise in unexpected ways, this book does not. It moves the story forward, but deteriorates at the end into a not very satisfying dead end.Towards the end of the book, Campbell inserts a time travel segment. (God of Clocks, after all.) As most time travel efforts do, even in defter hands, this ends with a whimper. Campbell pulls of a slight variation of the time travel standards, but only a slight one. And it ends poorly - more a colorful plot mechanism than credible narrative.As noted, there are two other books in the universe, but I don't expect to buy either of them. I'd sum up this trilogy as interesting and innovative, but hampered by occasionally inadequate description, and brought down by a substandard ending. I can recommend the first book, [b:Scar Night 627204 Scar Night (Deepgate Codex, #1) Alan Campbell http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320430003s/627204.jpg 2128357] as a interesting read, but I'd stop there. You could even stop after book 2, Iron Angel. But in my view, this third book will frustrate and disappoint you.

The concluding book in this trilogy is the weakest of the three, but overall this trilogy was endlessly inventive and unpredictable. The first in the trilogy, Scar Night, is still the best especially in terms of plotting. But beginning with the second book, Iron Angel, characters go off in different directions and new characters enter the fray. John Anchor was a favorite. Also, not all loose ends are wrapped up. The story concerns a fight for supremacy among gods (winged angels cast out of Heaven) and the ruler of Hell, King Menoa, the self-styled Lord of the Maze. I enjoyed it all but I it seems to me that the plotting was either more rushed after the first book or the author was nearly making it up as he went along. I'd be keen to see what he comes up with next, though.