Review: Could have been more steampunk, less romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2012
I am a seasoned Fanatasy &SciFi; reader, which is what led me to try out steampunk. That being said, I enjoyed the steampunk elements in the book, as well as the flow of action and moving the story forward. However, it annoyed me that the steampunk & mystery story was in the background, and the romance in the foreground. I agree with other reviewers, that the sex scenes were more towards the porn side sometimes than solely romance (which gave the book some fiercness of course, but there was a lot of focus on touching and romance in general). The romantic story and the interactions between the characters became very repetitive, the same type of scenes coming back over and over and over again.The second thing I agree with other reviewers on is that the main female character does something completely illogical and out of character in the end. But this didn't come as a surprise since all main characters made very illogically-based (or stupid) decisions on several occasionsAll the type errors also left me wondering if the book was ever proofread at all?I finished it since it was exciting and kept me in suspense, but as a fantasy reader it left me restless and in lack for more of the background story with all that was brewing...