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THE NIGHTMARE GARDEN, book 2 of the Iron Codex trilogy was better than the first, no doubt about that, but honestly I still can't declare my love for this over complicated and painfully drawn out steampunk, dystopian fairy tale. I am ever so thankful to Kittredge for the slightly better pacing with this installment, but must state that even with the continued originality in the storyline; she failed to really grab me with the characters themselves. I still liked our heroin Aoife, but that was pretty much it; I liked most of the characters, equally and not really beyond that. I didn't care about them, even in the life and death situations I wasn't... I don't know, how do I put this?...I guess I wasn't "moved" by anyone or really anything. THE NIGHTMARE GARDEN, (both of the Iron Codex books really) are kinda creepy and cool and definitely unique stories...but that therein lies my issue with them, they are just that, dark stories, nothing more, nothing less. And after 900+ pages between the two books, I suppose I just expected more. More love for the characters, more emotion, more excitement, more explanations, just well... more. But with THE NIGHTMARE GARDEN you do get, yes a bit more action and a few answers, but mostly you just get more questions; which is not the kind of more I was hoping for. In the end I was once again left torn and slightly frustrated. There is so much potential in the bones of this series, that it pains me not to like it, well...for lack of a better word, more. I'm crossing my fingers hat Kittredge will pull it all together and make it all worth it in the final book.


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The Nightmare Garden Iron Codex Caitlin Kittredge Books Reviews

In the first book The Iron Thorn, Aoife destroyed the Lovecraft engine, setting war about all the lands. The gates that have always been closed, have been opened and creatures have set an all-out war amongst each other. Aoife is taken to the Mist lands to stay safe from the danger with her brother and friends, But soon finds that even they are not welcomed there. The more the portals are opened, the easier the Proctors can find them. Aoife cannot fall into the hands of the Proctors because it just may mean death for her, her friends and her family.

Aoife knows that she is the only one that can save their world. By setting all the things right, but everybody is advising Aoife that what is done is done, they must fight and make due with what has happened. When Aoife gets the opportunity to be with her father again, she is more unhappy than ever and has to be true to herself. The Proctors soon get to her, and use her for their own advantage, with threat of killing her boyfriend and keeping him jailed until she completes her tasks. But all Aoife can think about is finding her mother, and to see if the the rumors of the Clock are true. And to do that, she must betray her father, her family and head out on her own.

What we have come to know about Aoife in The Iron Thorn is challenged a bit in the beginning of The Nightmare Garden. The once strong, determined and very stubborn Aoife becomes more timid when confronted by her father. A man she has not seen since she was a child. Fighting with those emotions of being abandoned by him and his newly formed authority over her. But this doesn't last for long, Aoife could not get as far as she does in her travels, and battling both Fae and Proctor, and even Pirate without the tenacity that we have come to know and love in her.

Aoife has to experience a lot of sad and hardened times in this novel. It is heartbreak after heartbreak and each time she is having to force through another blockade she grows stronger and harder than ever. She is one of my absolute favorite heroines. A girl that doesn't know what it's like to have it easy. Her whole life knowing that she is going to become crazy or contract her "weird" as they refer to it in this book. But unlike the stories of the weird she has heard about. She overcomes and learns to wield it, magically. She becomes stronger and pushes harder.

There is a lot of traveling in this series. But each new land brings a whole new dark, mystical adventure. The descriptions of the mists/ether/ open starry skied lands. Each setting completely mind blowing and visually engrossing. A highly flawed main character that has to deal with her weird, and staying away from the poisonous iron must overcome so much and travels so far. To complete so much, yet to still have so much to learn. I loved every minute. It's going to get you thinking, especially that ending. What kind of repercussions the actions of one world can have on all the others, completely mind blowing. I cannot wait to read the next installment
Having high hopes after reading the first book in this series, I found myself incredibly disappointed in this sophomore effort. While Kittredge still shows that she can develop a detailed and interesting world, what she had happen IN that world was disappointing. All the secondary characters from the first novel barely constituted background noise in this one. New characters enter the mix but aren't really given a chance to develop. Everyone in any of the three worlds that are part of this mythology seem to be able to find the protagonist at any time, and we never really figure out how they all keep managing it. Seriously, kidnapping Aoife seems to be the latest hobby for just about everyone with even semi-villainous intent, and the author doesn't ever seem inclined to explain how people keep finding her (sometimes in the middle of nowhere). The relationship with Dean is described as deep, but I don't feel that it is being written all that well or made to be believable. But what really set this book back was that Aoife herself has become exceedingly annoying. First, she seems incapable of having a consistent opinion about anything. With her brother, father, her father's new paramour . . . Aoife flip-flops from page to page about how she feels about any of them. She hates them, she misses them, she loves them, she kind-of-hates them, she tolerates them, she understands them, she doesn't understand them but kind of trusts them, but only when the moon is full on Tuesdays . . . it's actually kind of dizzying. Her moods and opinions are inclined to change at the drop of a hat. And then there is her decision making. Aoife from the first book makes mistakes but in THIS book, she seems to feed off of them. She bounces from event to event in "The Nightmare Garden" ignoring everyone's advice, listening to half-formed ideas that "she knows she has to do" that are rattling around in her head, and does nothing except make one stupid and selfish mistake after another. And then she complains about how things turned out and can't believe that everything has gone so wrong. By the end of the book, I no longer even cared about what happened to her, and thought that maybe someone else should step up and be the hero, because Aoife has shown that she's really, really bad at it.
THE NIGHTMARE GARDEN, book 2 of the Iron Codex trilogy was better than the first, no doubt about that, but honestly I still can't declare my love for this over complicated and painfully drawn out steampunk, dystopian fairy tale. I am ever so thankful to Kittredge for the slightly better pacing with this installment, but must state that even with the continued originality in the storyline; she failed to really grab me with the characters themselves. I still liked our heroin Aoife, but that was pretty much it; I liked most of the characters, equally and not really beyond that. I didn't care about them, even in the life and death situations I wasn't... I don't know, how do I put this?...I guess I wasn't "moved" by anyone or really anything. THE NIGHTMARE GARDEN, (both of the Iron Codex books really) are kinda creepy and cool and definitely unique stories...but that therein lies my issue with them, they are just that, dark stories, nothing more, nothing less. And after 900+ pages between the two books, I suppose I just expected more. More love for the characters, more emotion, more excitement, more explanations, just well... more. But with THE NIGHTMARE GARDEN you do get, yes a bit more action and a few answers, but mostly you just get more questions; which is not the kind of more I was hoping for. In the end I was once again left torn and slightly frustrated. There is so much potential in the bones of this series, that it pains me not to like it, well...for lack of a better word, more. I'm crossing my fingers hat Kittredge will pull it all together and make it all worth it in the final book.