Review: Loved it - and it's FREE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2012
Granted I haven't read a lot of steampunk books but I thought this was excellent.  I am no expert on the steampunk genre but I am an expert on what I like and this fit into THAT genre just right.  It starts off very well.  Inspector William Thomas was an interesting character and the crime mystery element was excellently done.  I liked how independent Lady Pheobe Hughes was and her take on tinkering (really distilling with a dash of pharmaceuticals manufacturing) was fun.  Her lost love coming back allowed us to skip over the 'getting to know each other' aspect of a romance novel.  Everyone in this book had their secrets and the writing was good enough to make me suspect each character for a bit based on that.  This was a romance and had plenty of sex to keep the attention of a connoisseur of adult books like myself.Well written characters, dialogue, plot, red herrings, romance and mystery with a dash of faux Victorian made Viridis an enjoyable read.  I highly recommend.