Review: Steam and Sensibility Review
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
This book has more going for it than a wonderful title (though there is no steam in the automatons that I could tell).  The recently orphaned daughter of an experimental scientist has traveled to gold rush ravaged San Francisco to live with her uncle. When he is not there to greet her she is accosted by several different people, most wanting her father's journal. Sensibility's attempts to decipher what is going on make up most of the book, the rest deals with her and her father's automatons and whether they will be used for good or evil purposes. The world in which she lives is different from many of the steampunk novels I have read, as is placing it in territorial gold rush California. I look forward to reading another story about Sensibility.