Her Own Devices
by:
Shelley Adina (author)
Book 2 of the Magnificent Devices series! Escaped lunatics, lost children, vengeful lords, and love. Really, the situation is becoming quite impossible. Seventeen-year-old Lady Claire Trevelyan, left alone after the Arabian Bubble financial disaster claims home and family, now leads the cleverest...
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Book 2 of the Magnificent Devices series! Escaped lunatics, lost children, vengeful lords, and love. Really, the situation is becoming quite impossible. Seventeen-year-old Lady Claire Trevelyan, left alone after the Arabian Bubble financial disaster claims home and family, now leads the cleverest gang in the London underworld. Between outwitting a rival gang, inventing a device that will net her and her scientist employer worldwide fame, and keeping her mother from marrying her off, she can almost forget that a powerful lord wants to get closer ... and if he succeeds, can destroy it all with a single word ...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781468134377 (146813437X)
ASIN: 146813437X
Publish date: December 31st 2011
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 290
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy,
Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
19th Century,
Steampunk,
Alternate History
Series: Magnificent Devices (#2)
I wanted to like this book more than I did. Going into it, I expected to come away liking it as well as the first. While the writing is just as good, the world just as cool, the characters just as intricate, I couldn’t get past the love triangle, which while suggested in the first and not nearly as ...
Reviews in less than 150 words... Lady Claire is finally getting the recognition she deserves working as an assistant to frustrated engineer Andrew Malvern. But his partner Lord James Selwyn wants her as his bride and has formed an alliance with her mother to get her down the aisle. If he succeeds...
Stem punk where have you been all my life? I'm loving this series. So glad I took a chance on this. I love that the love story takes a bit of a backseat in these books so far. It's such a refreshing change in a YA book. I still find Claire and the children delightful. I'm if the opinion that you ar...
Lady Claire Trevelyan took matters into her own hands after her family was ruined financially. Two months have passed since then, and now she’s known as the Lady of Devices, leader of a gang of smart orphans who she’s taken under her tutelage. Claire’s passion for engineering is strong and she has d...
I really enjoyed this second installment much more than the first. Much better flow, plot elements were explored more, you got to know the characters better. The romance element is sweet and I just love all the orphans to pieces. Lady Claire is a fantastic heroine. While I still think books 1 and 2 ...
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