Review: Neo Victorian intrigue
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 29, 2011
This book is set in the far future on another world, with a culture in some ways similar to Victorian England despite having some more advanced technology mixed in.  The protagonist catches a noble in a compromising position, and as a blackmail payment offers him a ticket to a secret school for 'regentrification', which will teach him to pretend he is a member of the upper class, and get a well paid job of some sort.The best part of the book is the middle.  There are a lot of amusing scenes in the hidden school, with the friends and enemies he makes.  If this sounds good to you, you might enjoy this book, but it has flaws.  The slang that the author invented for his lower class sometimes doesn't sound plausible, perhaps too verbose.There are a few other weaknesses as well.  The romance seems artificial (she instantly fell in love with him WHY?), and the ending seems a little tacked on and too easy, since he just sort of stumbles into a situation to do something huge and climactic which he hasn't actively been seeking most of the book.