Review: 5 Swashbuckling Stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
As a rule, I don't read YA, so take it from me when I say that this book is wonderful.  The characters are precisely drawn and heart-breakingly loveable, the plot is engaging and the setting entrancing (the author is a real-live, bona-fide sailor and it shows), and the heroine-she's the kind of girl I wish I could be, and this book is the kind of book I wish I could write.  It ties together the fantastic spirit of classics like The Golden Compass with the swashbuckling steam-powered adventure of Flash Gold (airships, pirates, and robots, oh my!) and blends them in with a heavy dose of the kind of storytelling that makes you feel good after the last word has been read.  It's so hard to say more without giving away something that you would have rather discovered yourself, so let me just say this.  Buy this book.  You will not regret this purchase, although you may decide you want some part of your body to be robotic after you finish.And for the record, I received a free copy of this book from the publisher, and consider myself lucky for it, because if I had known how good this book was going to be, I would have run out in an instant and snapped it up.Five Swashbuckling Stars.