I had read about a third of this before I realised it was written for kids, which I guess is pretty cool. Starts of with a dead man coming back home for his dinner and then taking the dog for a walk, bet the dog never saw that coming.
As the story unfolds it takes in a mysterious 19th Century department of the British Museum headed up by Sir William Protheroe, that looks after all the artefacts no one can explain like vampire's teeth and werewolf skins. No vampires or werewolves, but there is a crazed scientist who wants to take over the world with his Victorian dinosaur cyborgs.
Its up to the museum's clock restoring hero George Archer, pickpocket Eddie, love interest Liz and Sir William to save the day. If you can imagine a 19th century Jurassic Park coliiding with Frankenstein and the Terminator you are halfway there.
I thoughty it started really well, but then struggled to keep the pace and the original ideas coming as it went on.
Burning question why did I buy it, well funky title, a steam-punky storyline and of course the illustration of a dinosaur on the book jacket clinched it.
2007-07-30 @ 13:28