A ReviewsAsian heroine / Duke / interracial-romance / law-enforcement / murder-investigation / racism / steampunk8 Comments
Because this book is so awesome, it needs more than one review. Dear Ms. Brook, I’ve greatly enjoyed many of your books, yet for some reason I’ve never felt compelled to review one until now. While that may be perceived as rude, it turns out that other reviewers at DA ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ ReviewsAsian heroine / Duke / interracial-romance / law-enforcement / murder-investigation / racism / steampunk43 Comments
Dear Ms. Brook, The Iron Duke is a steampunk romance and it is very different in setting and genre from most of the romances I've read. It’s not really paranormal, but rather science fiction set in a partly-historical setting. A kind of "what if" world. What if nanotechnology had been ... more >
C+ Reviews19th century / France / gaslight fantasy / Italy / road trip / shapeshifters / steampunk / vampires26 Comments
Warning: this review contains spoilers from the last book, which are central to the plot of this one. Dear Ms. Carriger: The cliffhanger to your second Parasol Protectorate book, Changeless, definitely worked its storytelling magic on me, and by the time Blameless was released, I was still dying to find ... more >
A- Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews / D Reviewschangeling / Historical Fantasy / Nalini-Singh / POC author / steampunk / vampires35 Comments
Dear Readers, Burning Up is a new anthology of steamy paranormal novellas from Berkely. I almost never read or review entire anthologies, mainly because it takes me a long, long time to craft four mini-reviews, but in this case I was motivated to do so by my desire to try ... more >
Interviewsinterview / steampunk22 Comments
Let's suppose I'm an innocent lamb that somehow ends up at your signing table in a bookshop. After winning me over with a dorky smile, how would you summarise Here There Be the Monsters (a novella from romance anthology Burning Up) and The Iron Duke? You know that times are ... more >
C Reviews CategoryFantasy Romance / First-Person / Katie MacAlister / steampunk / Time-Travel12 Comments
Dear Ms. MacAlister, I was excited to read Steamed, mostly because I haven’t found a lot of romance authors making a foray into the subgenre of steampunk and I’m always curious to see how worlds develop. It’s also nice to take a break from vampires, weres and futuristic worlds that ... more >