Review: Not enough
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2011
A steam punk novella is kind of an oxymoron.  It takes a skilled craftsman to provide credible world building within the constraints of a limited word count.  The only author I've read who really pulled it off is Meljean Brook.Photographs & Phantoms has elements of paranormal, mystery, steampunk and erotica all rolled into one.  It has real promise, but the seams show. I liked a lot of the world Ms. Pape has created, and I liked her characters.  I just didn't get to know them well enough to buy into their actions.  I felt like I was being yanked from incident to incident with no time to process what was happening.  I am willing to try the full length book, however.Three and a half stars rounded up to four.