Review: Short teen Steampunk prequel. Good flow. Strong willed & smart female character. No romance. Slightly gory.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2014
This novella has a good flow & is well written. Finley Jayne is very strong willed and determined. She has a multiple personality disorder that makes her strong & fearless when emotions run high. I enjoyed her character. Being Steampunk, there are a lot of clockwork devices, automatons and a mad scientist. The story has a gory "Frankenstein" feel. Mary Shelley's story is referenced a couple of times. There's humour in the way the story is told. Finley comes up with funny thoughts & comments that make you smile. The action starts around the 50% mark. Before that, it's mostly character background and story setup. I am a romantic so I was disappointed that there was no love interest for Finley. I hope that there will be more romance in the 1st novel in the series, "The Girl in the Steel Corset".Technical stuff:The prequel novella to the novel "The Girl in the Steel Corset" from Kady Cross' "Steampunk Chronicles". Set in a fictional London, 1897 where clockwork and automatons are the new technology. Written in the 3rd person from Finley's point of view (with a little exception where we get a little bit from Lord Vincent's point of view). It is only available in ebook format. Teen Steampunk: violence and a little gore (no sex, no course language). It took me 2.5 hours to read.