by Anne Renwick
The Golden Spider and The Silver Skull are both fairly paint-by-numbers steampunk: it's vaguely Victorian-ish, with the ton & the peerage and all that, but there are Babbage cards and steam mechanicals and such too. The Golden Spider is probably the better novel, following a girl scientist trying...
Man oh man was this book GOOOOD! It was steamy (though I must admit to skimming through the naughtiest of bits), extremely well written, well researched, action/romance packed and neatly wrapped up at the end (for most of the leading characters that is). It was told in multiple POVs which can be tri...
Wow. Next time some author describes their book as a "Romance," I really need to ask some follow-up questions before I say yes. Technically, Renwick said "Steampunk Romance," and I figured it'd be something like The Parasol Protectorate or The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. And it was. But with a...