well i could only get hold of the audio version and due to the bloke reading it doing really bad new zealand and australia accents i only gave it 2 stars. the idea for this noval was a brillant idea and adding the steampunk element which i seem to be getting in to i thought i would have loved this b...
*Genre* Steampunk*Rating* 4*Review*Phoenix Rising is set in the late 1890’s London where Queen Victoria rules. Yet, there are those who don’t much care for her, or her policies and want to see her rule end and replaced by something else entirely. The villains don’t much care for those from the colon...
Poor writing (too much tell, not enough show), poor editing, poor pacing, lazy characterizations, and a plot that managed, somehow, to be both absurd and boring. The dialogue desperately tried to be witty but always fell short.Also, Books and Braun? Come on, now.The actual steampunk bits (the gadget...
This is a promising start to a new Steampunk series. The way the chapters were titled grated on me a bit. They tended to follow the formula "in which character x does y," but it's a minor quibble.I like both of the main characters, though I constantly misread Book as Brooks (perhaps because Books ...
Great fun! Automatons, bullet-proof corsets, explosions, and more!Eliza Braun loves her weapons and her dynamite. Wellington Books prefers to hide away in his basement offices at the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. When these two characters are forced to work together, sparks fly – literally.Phoen...
This book was such great fun. Laughs, excitement, sexual tension...you can't ask for more. The icing on the cake is the heroine, Eliza. She reminds me so much of Fiona from the TV show Burn Notice, and she is my favorite TV character ever. Anxiously awaiting book two.
I had hoped to like this one more, sure it was good and all, but you know, those hopes ones have. First it looks so cool and it sounds so good too.Eliza was a good kick-ass heroine who liked explosives and sometimes acted a bit too soon. While her new partner in crime, Books was a the nerdy guy from...
Steampunk is an odd mesh of history, fantasy and technology that frequently suffers from inconsistent blending. Perhaps I will have to agree with Kerry's review and declare "genre incompatibility." Like the loud drunk guy at a party, it is at times mildly funny, then unintelligibly serious, but alw...
4.7I believe there must be a rule that says all knew Steampunk novels must start off slow, involve automatons serving food and then trying to kill you and explosions with large scale destruction.On that note, this story follows Eliza Braun and Wellington Brooks, both agents of the crown with opposit...
Don't judge a book by its cover. Yeah, but readers do it all the time. It's sad, but we have too - there so many books out there. In some ways, the covers become the short-cuts - romantic covers look one way, fantasy covers another.But then you have books like this one. I really wasn't sure if I...
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