May 7 2013
Dear Ms. Brady: Last year’s release, “Hearts of Darkness”, was one of my favorites of the year. The post apocalyptic steampunk world building was as unique as I had read in my many years of digesting paranormal romances. “Hearts of Shadow” is no different in its uniqueness, but it did require a big effort on(…)
May 4 2013
Dear Mr.Westerfeld, Following an enthusiastic recommendation from Lou of The Book Pushers, I picked up your Leviathan Trilogy, a YA steampunk series, to read with my husband. The series is set in a fun, detailed and engaging if not 100% believable world where World War I is a clash between two technologies, one DNA based(…)
May 3 2013
NB: This review from AJH is the fourth in his series of “I’m getting to know the romance genre.” His introduction is here. You can buy the book with these links. The Iron Duke takes place in an alt-history steampunk England, some nine years after the revolution which evicted the Mongol Horde. This had me(…)
May 1 2013
Dear Ms. McMaster: Your first gaslight fantasy/steampunk novel took my pleasantly by surprise and I was excited to read the follow up, Heart of Iron, which paired Lena and Will. Will is a wuthvern in Britian where shapeshifting is outlawed. The English wiped out the Scottlish clans in the battle of Culloden and what’s left(…)
Mar 19 2013
Dear Ms. Pape: I’ve been looking for some good steampunk romance and this definitely worked for me. This is the first book of yours of I’ve read, even though this is 5th book in the Gaslight Chronicle series. Widow Belinda Danvers is accused of being a witch. Things are looking pretty dire for her until(…)
Jan 16 2013
In honor of Edgar Allan Poe’s 204th approaching birthday (January 19th), a trio of novels that pay him homage: Poe’s wistful, haunting “Annabel Lee” provides between-the-lines clues in Jill Winters’ romantic mystery Kingdom by the Sea as Nicole Sheffield realizes the Cape Cod house she’s inherited holds a secret that puts her in danger. Bethany(…)
Jan 13 2013
Dear Ms. McMaster: I purchased this book during Sourcebooks after holidays sale for 99c. I had heard a lot of talk about it and it was a title listed on several year end “best of” lists, however it was the promotional price that finally spurred me to pick this book up. I have tried several(…)
Dec 6 2012
Dear Gwen Hayes: Ours Is Just a Little Sorrow may be the best title of the year, and the cover is way up there as well. The combination, as well as the blurb, made it hard for me to resist. You describe your novella as “neo-Victorian,” which turns out to be a mixture of steampunk,(…)
Sep 19 2012
Dear Mr. Westerfeld, Your steampunk YA, Leviathan, was recommended to me on Twitter by one of The Book Pushers. I believe it was Lou. Lou loved the book so much that I decided to put it on the list of possible books to read with my husband. Flash forward a few months, and we were(…)
Aug 24 2012
The DOJ filed its response to the resistances filed against the request that Judge Cote approves the settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster. If you’ve read Courtney Milan’s brilliant piece that books are not special snowflakes, you’ve read the DOJ’s retort which uses the same case law (and admittedly why wouldn’t they) and(…)
Aug 7 2012
Dear Ms. Brady: I picked this book up randomly from my pile of paper ARCs. I had no preconception of the story. The ARC had a plain blue paper cover and while it may have had a cover flat attached to it at one time, it was nowhere to be found when I began reading.(…)
May 12 2012
Dear Ms. Griffin, I’m a big Edgar Allan Poe fan. Any book with a title referencing him is always going to get a second look from me. Combined with a striking cover, it’s almost guaranteed I will pick it up. I initially thought Masque of the Red Death was a debut, but your name sounded(…)
Mar 9 2012
Dear Ms. Grace: This is a two story collection and while the world was intriguing, I felt like I was only given tiny glimpses of what could be instead of a full fledged immersion into a new world. I’m not sure if it was because of the two story structure or whether the teasing reveal(…)
Jan 2 2012
Dear Ms. Gooden, I’ve never read a steampunk book and frankly had doubts that it would be to my taste but since I’m trying to expand my reading of new-to-me authors, I thought why not try a new genre as well. The results weren’t what I was hoping for but the reason for the grade(…)
Nov 30 2011
Dear Authors, Steampunk is that subgenre I want to love, that I think has so much potential. Unfortunately, we have a rocky relationship. I’ve attempted to read too many novels in which the steampunk trappings are superficial — put a pair of goggles on someone, mention an airship, and have someone drink some tea seem(…)
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