Review: Had potential and a great start, but skipped all of the important scenes where they supposedly fell in love
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2014
It was nice overall--a good premise, writing, and steampunk world--and I was very intrigued at the beginning, but then the book started skipping over long periods of time.  It left out all of the scenes where they actually built their relationship (when was this first dinner party, the picnics, the nights spent reading to each other, falling asleep together, essentially living together, falling in love from the original lust?), and it was actually confusing figuring out from one scene to the next whether it was the next night, the next month, or what.  And then there would be a sentence or two anemically stating the fact that they had been out having picnics, listening to and learning about one another, and becoming attached, but you did not get to experience any of those times, so the story felt very disjointed and their love spontaneously present.It did have good world building, good characters, and a lot of potential.  It could have been an amazing, five star read if it had built more slowly and thoroughly, describing and playing out all these intermittent scenes, but written as it was, I just couldn't get into it before I felt like I was missing the meat of their interactions, which is what a romance is supposed to be about.