A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAlternate History / djinn / Egypt / Fantasy / Historical / Middle East / novella / POC / POC author / steampunk6 Comments
Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities — handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner Agent Onsi Youssef are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsdjinn / Egypt / Fantasy / female detectives / Middle East / POC / POC author / short-story / steampunk / strong heroine / turn of the 20th century / unusual heroine2 Comments
Egypt, 1912. In Cairo, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads her through the city’s underbelly as she encounters rampaging ghouls, saucy assassins, clockwork angels, and ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / Historical / inventors / LGBTQIA romance / London / m/m romance / short-story / steampunk8 Comments
In the automated Vauxhall Floating Gardens, high above the smoggy streets of London, Nightingale No. 48 is refusing to sing. Stern mechanic Shem Holloway brings in the Gardens’ brilliant but arrogant inventor, Lord Marchmont, to fix the broken automaton. But the clockwork nightingale has a secret, and soon both men ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAlternate History / Frankenstein / medical school / steampunk / Victorian4 Comments
Dear Alisa Kwitney: In the mid-2000s, I read five of your chick-lit books, and graded all but one A or A-. For me that marks you as a Very Good Author. (The fifth book, your last chick-lit Flirting in Cars, got a B+ from me, so, still a very good ... more >
Book Reviews / C- ReviewsAlternate History / m/m romance / steampunk8 Comments
Love, adventure and a steaming good time. Clockwork Love, Book 1 As the French army leader’s bastard son, Cornelius Stevens enjoys a great deal of latitude. But when he saves an enemy soldier using clockwork parts, he’s well aware he risks hanging for treason. That doesn’t worry him half as ... more >
B- Reviewssteampunk / Young-Adult5 Comments
Dear Ms. Mantchev: Ticker is another book that I acquired through the Kindle First program. What that has meant so far, now that I’ve read about four or five books through Kindle First, is that generally the book (or perhaps more accurately in this case, the genre) is not one ... more >