3 stars out of 5This book started out super slow and it was hard for me to get into it. Then it turned around for a short time and I started enjoying it finally. Then it ended up full of Cherry being in these drugged states at the mercy of people she doesn't know whether to trust over and over again...
My name is Cherry St. Croix. I am a collector, one of the many who are employed to acquire, kill or investigate for bounties. My rules are simple: I don’t collect children, and I don’t murder for coin. Truth be told, I’ve never killed for any reason.This book is one of the many reasons as to why I l...
3.5 stars, I wanted to like this a whole lot more than I did. The setting and rich descriptiveness of a steampunk London both below and above 'the drift' didn't make up for characters that felt shallow to me. While we get quite a bit of background on Cherry herself the rest of the people who surro...
This review also posted at A Bookish CompulsionI very much wanted to like this book, and in the end was saddened by disappointment. The entirety of this book seemed more of a set-up for future volumes than a story in and of itself. I also found the plot proposed by the cover blurb to be a bit misl...
Steampunk mystery.Cherry st Croix lives a secret life at night, moonlighting as a Collector to make her allowance last a bit longer each month. Orphaned and with an absent guardian, she can rule her own life. Trouble brews and her friends below are targeted by a serial killer, not to mention that sh...
Holy whoa.I had a difficult time getting into this book, but once I got past that stumbling block and really settled into the book, I could only hold on and go for the ride with Cherry.And boy, was it a ride. The entire cast of characters is AMAZING and so very rich. I, for one, swoon for the sweet ...
There was so much potential in the steamppunk London of Tarnished, but the story was too busy to take advantage of it. I'm sure a debutante/bounty hunter/opium addict can exist but there was not enough space in the narrative to help me understand it or sympathize with the myriad motivations it bring...
I liked this book. I liked it a lot. From the unique setting of a London above and a London below, to a heroine that is complex and problematic, Tarnished has some very unique qualities that set it apart and make me interested in what happens next to its main protagonist, Cherry St. Croix.The worl...
I mostly really enjoyed this book. I really like Cherry and her staff. I'm less sold on the two male interests. Cherry is a great steampunk lead. She's an independent woman who is very interested in the world around her and in science in particular. I really like the world Cooper has designed. ...
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