Review: A modern day golden age pulp and worth every penny
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2012
This little gem may strike some people as short and indeed it does leave you with many unanswered questions which I for one hope will be addressed in the sequel(s?), but since I believe that the author intended from the beginning that this book was going to be structured like a golden age pulp it comes in at just about the right length.This book does a good job of combining Steampunk, Lovecraftian and Science Fiction elements to create a novel environment all its own. It features well constructed characters, although I must admit we don't learn as much as I would have liked about Smith due to his amnesia, however that is more than made up for by the amount of time we spend inside April's head. What I think I liked best about this book was its female protagonist who is written with thought processes like a real person, in her own head she  is neither damsel in distress nor bad ass demon hunter, but instead swings back and forth from one end of the spectrum to the other as circumstances and the characters around push and pull on her. This made her seem very real and motivated to me and is unlike so many other female characters in supernatural fiction who in today's world seem so one dimensional.I recommend this book to everyone, but especially to anyone who likes golden aged pulps, especially those written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and H.P. Lovecraft.