Review: Not Necessary But Nice IV
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2012
This novella takes place just prior to The Girl in the Steel CorsetSo if you are reading the Steampunk Chronicles novels, do you absolutely need to read this?IMHO, no, because it contains nothing you absolutely need to know in order to understand anything that occurs in the first book; however, that doesn't make it useless or uninteresting to Steam Chronicles Series fans.In this episode we get to see Finley Jayne face down a threat to the young lady she's been hired to be a companion to that only she could have defeated.  In fact the one nit I'd pick is that the successful, confident Finley, who leaves behind two wealthy women eternally in her debt at the end of this novella seems not to match up well with the fearful, running Finley at the beginning of the novel, making me pretty certain that this story was written long after the novel it is supposed to be prequel to...and after author Kady Cross had begun to forget what she wrote.Still, if you are going to read the Steam Chronicles Series, you will probably want to read this novella before you read the first book The Girl in the Steel Corset; however, if you purchase thepaperback edition,The Strange Case of Finley Jayneis already included.