Review: Great job!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2013
A girl that is considered an outcast by society for her beliefs and her family's profession, an intriguing lost love returns from the dead and a mission to save a loved one.Having only recently discovered the steampunk genre, I was intrigued to see what this book had to offer but I was very happy to read it cover to cover, and find that the characters were rich and vibrant with very real lives and concerns.Jessie, left on her own after her parents and brother die, finds life a struggle. Her mixed heritage makes life difficult in a time when the American Indians were still considered a second class race.  She has inherited her mother's beauty and connection to the land but also has her father's talent for invention and making things work, and this combines to make her a very self-sufficient and interesting person.She is discovering that there were many family secrets that she was not aware of and that there are 2 people she thought were dead that are in fact alive.  Those secrets are putting her life in danger and she must turn to one she thought dead and learn to trust him again.  He is the only one who can keep her safe and help her find the one family member she may have, if he is still alive.I love the mix of old colonial USA and the steampunk workings.  The intrigue of Jessie's Indian family melts in and out of the story, and plays an integral role in a very captivating end to the book.The characters of Jessie, Luke and Luke's team really felt like old-world people to me and I enjoyed this book a lot.  The writer does a great job with all the characters, their development as well as how they all fit together to make a very interesting story with some very unexpected developments and a few explosions along the way to make it really interesting.Reviewed by Bec Clarkefor TheRomanceReviews.com