blurb - In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Inc...
I really wanted to like this one - my first real foray into steampunk, which I've always found aesthetically amusing, at least - but somehow, it just didn't do it for me. I mean, it's bursting with cool stuff and sounds like it should be really fun to read: a brilliant mad scientist, an inventor of ...
An interesting book about an alternate version of Seattle. A giant drill ruptured something in the earth's crust which released a deadly gas that turned people into rotters (zombies).I liked the world that Priest created. It was well developed and an interesting place to visit. I did find my atte...
I wanted to like this book, I really did. But it was a big fat "eh" for me. I had to force myself to read about 267 pages of it.Briar was an interesting character but like everyone else, she seemed a bit flat. The attention to detail was amazing and Cherie Priest painted a good portrait of a pseudo-...
The story starts right out with a bit of history, written by Hale Qaurter, of what happened to the city of Seattle in 1863. Hale then tries to talk with Briar Wilkes, who will NOT share any part of her story with anyone - not even her own son. Briar not only lost her husband, but her father as wel...
Steampunk with actual steam, what a concept! Boneshaker was unlike other steampunk I've read; it was not a far-future, or post-oil, or really much of a fantasy novel (in spite of the zombies!) It's really more of a "what-if..." Plus, zombies! Steampunk and tech-fiction fans should note that Boneshak...
Lots of action, curious characters, a bit of mystery, old grudges. Really this book has pretty much everything. It's so much fun to read. I'm not going to beg for it to be made into a movie, because Priest has so fully realized her Seattle than the reader can already see it all, and because movie...
A good little book. Fast-paced and entertaining, it was filled with both action and light-hearted moments. But I just cannot get into a "steampunk" world. The futuristic-type inventions in the 1880s, during a fictitiously extended US Civil War, did not add to, or subtract from, the story. It was jus...
This book has a great premise: zombies! in a steampunk setting! with working-class mom as grim, determined protagonist! And the details of the alternate history are well worked out and really kind of cool. Unfortunately, I didn't get much out of reading the book that I couldn't have gotten out of ju...
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