Review: Great steampunk adventure with elements of dystopian adventure
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2014
This book is awesome! I love Katya! She’s such a cool main character. Feisty and bad-a**. When things go wrong in the steampunk / dystopian city of Lavorgna, Katya has to put the pieces together and stop whoever’s doing it, because if she doesn’t it’ll be the end of the world.It’s fast-paced and exciting, and I recommend it to anyone that loves a good read.This book has elements of both steampunk fiction and dystopian fiction, but really it’s unique. It’s probably more accurately described as weird fiction or New Weird. It takes place in a pseudo-modern city with some fantastical elements, zeppelins, a mad scientist that can bring back the dead successfully, others that can only resurrect mindless zombies, a city of vanished Lovecraftian beings underground, etc.The city (the one above-ground) is wonderful, terrifying and exhilarating, and I hope the author has more tales to write set there!Katya is a thief and she has to use her wiles to survive the various mobsters, creatures and zombies while she solves the mystery of what’s going down. It won’t be easy, but it sure is fun to read about! The writing is crisp and clear, and the story is a blast from start to finish. You owe it to yourself to read this book!