God Save the Queen
Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist. The undead matriarch presides over a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. It's a world where the nobility are infected...
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Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist.
The undead matriarch presides over a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. It's a world where the nobility are infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath), Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day, and leeches are considered a delicacy. And a world where technology lives side by side with magic. The year is 2012 and Pax Britannia still reigns.
Xandra Vardan is a member of the elite Royal Guard, and it is her duty to protect the Aristocracy. But when her sister goes missing, Xandra will set out on a path that undermines everything she believed in and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to topple the empire. And she is the key -- the prize -- in a very dangerous struggle.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316196123 (0316196126)
Publish date: 2012-07-03
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 351
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy,
Romance,
Shapeshifters,
Adult,
Steampunk,
Alternate History,
Supernatural,
Vampires,
Werewolves
Series: The Immortal Empire (#1)
This one is a hard one to rate. I had some major issues with it, but it was also kind of fun, and I’m curious to check out the rest of the series. This is a kind of alternate history fantasy-ish steampunk world where continued exposure to the bubonic plague mutated humans into becoming vampires and ...
In a London where Aristocrats have turned into vampires and werewolves, lording a whole new power over the regular folks, and as happens in this case, a new class is created - half-aristocrat children with extra strength and abilities without being fully vampires or werewolves. And in that tense wor...
I've been thinking about mood and reading recently, although maybe that's the wrong way to put it. My Summer of Steampunk has morphed into Steampunk Planet (which I now think I'm ready to get off, thank you), and I'm still churning through the lower midlist of steampunk titles available at my librar...
This book really blew me away and I can't honestly say that I didn't expect that. I thought it was just gonna be a normal read, but it was so much more. It had everything I love in a book. I loved Xandra and Vex - and the goblin prince. I thought the plot and premise was very nice and though it was ...
This book really blew me away and I can't honestly say that I didn't expect that. I thought it was just gonna be a normal read, but it was so much more. It had everything I love in a book. I loved Xandra and Vex - and the goblin prince. I thought the plot and premise was very nice and though it was ...
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