The Clockwork Scarab
"The mishmash of popular tropes (steampunk! vampires! Sherlock Holmes!) will bring readers in, but it's the friendship between the two girls that will keep them."--Kirkus ReviewsEvaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the...
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"The mishmash of popular tropes (steampunk! vampires! Sherlock Holmes!) will bring readers in, but it's the friendship between the two girls that will keep them."--Kirkus ReviewsEvaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood. And when two society girls go missing, there's no one more qualified to investigate. Now fierce Evaline and logical Mina must resolve their rivalry, navigate the advances of not just one but three mysterious gentlemen, and solve a murder with only one clue: the strange Egyptian scarab. The stakes are high. If Stoker and Holmes don't unravel why the belles of London society are in such danger, they'll become the next victims.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781452110707 (1452110700)
Publish date: September 17th 2013
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Pages no: 356
Edition language: English
Series: Stoker & Holmes (#1)
ReviewClockwork Scarab is such a fun novel. I love that we get dual points of view.Mina is very much like her Uncle Sherlock. She has to have reasonable answers to everything that happens. If logic doesn't fit she finds a way to make the information understandable. Evaline is the next vampire hu...
Oh, I have IDEAS about this. Can't wait to start the next book so that I can see how close I am to the truth. Great book!
I did want to like this book but I felt that there was a lot pushed into the story some of which felt somewhat forced.And then I lost the suspension of disbelief when on page 242 we have this eyebrow exercising sequence: ".. I smelled the essence of bitter almond..." "Cyanide." ... "yes I suspect it...