Review: Loving Steampunk
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2014
I’m quite new to the steampunk genre, I think I may have read less than five books in my whole life that falls under the steampunk genre, and even then, it wasn’t too steampunk-y because I never really knew what steampunk was until I started reading this book. It was a bad idea, because this novella had me completely hooked to the genre.While reading this novella, I was utterly awed because the amount of research that must have gone into this work or art bowled me over. I’ve read more than a few of Annie Seaton’s novels and they’ve all managed to wow me, but I think because this was a completely different genre and it didn’t focus so much on the romance element, it just blew me away.Having a flower play a central part in the book was something I really didn’t expect. Sure it’s in the title, but I really thought that was going to be more of a metaphor. The stuff that Annie writes in this book is so awesome. Holiday biomes, time travelling a strong and wilful female character and a very swoon worthy male man. (And he’s British, so of course, sexy accent).Mystery, intrigue and all the steam-powered thingamajigs made a brilliant combination.