Clockwork Lives: The Graphic Novel

by Hugh Syme

Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions in order to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious gift: a blank book that she must fill with other people’s stories—and ultimately her own.

Clockwork Lives is a steampunk Canterbury Tales—and much more—that follows Marinda as she strives to change her life from a “mere sentence or two” to a true epic. 

Based on the world they previously introduced in Clockwork Angels, Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart take the graphic novel to new heights with this adaptation of the best-selling book Clockwork Lives.

• ISBN13: 9781683833772
• Publish Date: 19 June 2018
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Insight Editions
• Imprint: Insight Comics
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 176
• Language: English

Reviews

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I borrowed this great graphic novel from the library, but it's one I'll be on the lookout for to add to my shelves. This is an adaptation of the book 'Clockwork Lives', also by Anderson and Peart, which I also need to get my hands on. Their 'Clockwork Angels' was a favourite read of mine a few years ago and this graphic novel is set in the same steampunk world as that one.

'Clockwork Lives' is a collection of stories within a story and I really liked the way that each story was given to a different artist to bring to life. The stories are gathered together by the main character in the book, Marinda Peake, a task she was given by her late father in his will. Unless she fills a magical blank book he left her with stories then she will not be able to receive her inheritance. The gathering of these stories takes her to places she never imagined she would ever visit. Without giving anything else away, this is one worth checking out, especially if you have read any of the other 'Clockwork' bookstore even if you are a fan of Peart's band, Rush.