Frank Burns reviewed Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota -- Book 1)
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …
Review of 'Too Like the Lightning' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Well I tried. Didn't finish. I did want to stick with this given the general buzz around it but I just couldn't. I suspect there may be an inventive and compelling story in there but the author's decision to write in an imitation of a Victorian author's 'voice' was just too off putting.
This is definitely going to be a subjective thing as many people say they love it but it just wasn't for me.