Book review of Clockwork Boys by T Kingfisher (opens in new tab)

The fantasy genre has the reputation of producing books big enough that you could use as a casual seat, trilogies that you could line up, throw some cushions on top and make into a settee. It does not have to be this way and T Kingfisher has certainly bucked the trend with Clockwork Boys, which comes in under 300 pages and is the first outing in a Clocktaur Wars duology. Can epic fantasy work in smaller chunks? Of course it can. When Slate, the forger, is tasked with searching the prisons for...