Wicked As She Wants by Delilah S Dawson (Blud #2) Pocket Books (April 2013) Ebook, 384 Pages Steampunk Romance Warning: contains minor spoilers The expectations for Wicked As She Wants were extremely high for me, since I adored Wicked As They Come, The Mysterious Madam Morpho and The Peculiar Pets of Miss Pleasance. Dawson had set the bar very high for this book and the fact that it had the vagabond Casper Sterling, AKA The Maestro, had me giddy with anticipation. However, this book just didn’t reach those giddy heights of the…
Iron Guns, Blazing Hearts by Heather Massey Lyrical Press (Feb 2013) | Ebook, 156 pages Steampunk Romance Iron Guns, Blazing Hearts is the story of Violet Whitcomb, daughter and assistant to her father, Professor Whitcomb, a brilliant scientist and expert in the field of automata. The story opens with Violet and her father on a train journey to San Francisco in order to present his latest and greatest invention. It is on this journey that Violet meets the enigmatic Logan and her world changes forever. Violet is for the most part a very…
The Peculiar Pets of Miss Pleasance by Delilah S. Dawson (Blud Series #1.6) Pocket Books (April 2013) Ebook, 100 pages Steampunk Romance Warning: contains spoilers for first book in series Getting a chance to read this novella before it was published had me excited. This is a series that I have obsessed over, ever since I read Wicked As They Come. I am happy to report that Dawson shows no sign of producing anything other than an excellent addition to her series. While many other authors struggle to create a…
Heart of Iron (London Steampunk #2) by Bec McMaster Sourcebooks Casablanca (May 2013) | Ebook, 448 pages Steampunk Romance Warning: contains spoilers for book one Heart of Iron starts a few years following the end of Heart of Steel with Honoria happily married to Blade, brother Charley safe in the care of the newlyweds and Lena living with their secret half brother Leo in the Echelon. Following a daring kiss by Lena at the end of book one Will moved out of the house he shared with Blade to avoid chance meetings with the enticing…
Mina Wentworth and the Invisible City (Iron Seas #1.5) by Meljean Brook | Berkley (Aug 2012) | Ebook, 104 pages Steampunk Romance Warning: contains spoilers for the first book in series Mina Wentworth and the Invisible City by Meljean Brook follows on from The Iron Duke, with Rhys and Mina living in relative marital bliss in the changed society of London. The novella opens with detective inspector Mina Wentworth returning from a police investigation and determined to hide her newly acquired injuries from Rhys. Since their marriage he has become even more…
Timeless by Gail Carriger (Parasol Protectorate #5) Orbit Books (March 2012) Paperback, 328 pages Steampunk Romance Warning: contains spoilers for previous books Timeless by Gail Carriger picks up two years after the events of Heartless, with Alexia and Conall living in relative peace after the birth of their daughter, Prudence. They still inhabit Lord Akeldama’s closet, managing werewolf pack business from London whilst living with a whole host of well-dressed vampires. Needless to say no-one is allowed to leave the house without a suitable modicum of dress, resulting in a very…
A Clockwork Christmas (Anthology) by Stacy Gail, P. G. Forte, Jenny Schwartz, J. K. Coi Carina Press (Dec 2011) | Ebook, 353 pages Steampunk Romance A Clockwork Christmas is a collection of steampunk tales all a bit heavy on romance rather than on steampunkiness. CRIME WAVE IN A CORSET by Stacy Gail Cornelia Peabody is a master thief but everything comes undone when Professor Cuddington confronts her in her own home and attaches a device on her wrist that will kill her on Christmas day if she doesn’t retrieve the Faberge egg that she…
Heartless by Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate #4) Orbit Books (July 2011) Paperback, 311 pages Steampunk Romance Warning: contains spoilers for previous books Heartless by Gail Carriger picks up where Blameless left off, with the pregnant Lady Alexia Maccon continuing to cause all manners of trouble whilst still having time to stop for those all-important cups of tea. Our heroine is eight months pregnant and frustrated with her inabilities to function as she used to, as mobility is fast becoming an issue. The frequent scenes in which she has to be…
The Mysterious Madam Morpho (Blud #1.5) by Delilah S. Dawson | Pocket Books (Oct 2011) Ebook, 100 pages | Steampunk Romance After the fantastic Wicked As They Come, I was desperate to read any little morsel from the is brilliantly constructed world. As luck would have it, I didn’t have to wait till next year for the next full length novel as with the much appreciated help from the author and her publicist (many thanks to both by the way) I managed to get a copy of this little novella. (This is…
The Iron Duke (Iron Seas #1) by Meljean Brook Berkley UK (Apr 2012) | Paperback, 378 pages Steampunk Romance The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook is a thrilling book that really embraces the new steampunk genre, set in an alternate version of England that is recovering from the rule of the Horde. The Horde appears to have been an organization that ruled England through the use of nanoagents that were snuck into the food supplies and ingested by the population. These nanoagents are bugs that can be controlled by radio frequencies, allowing the…
The Seduction of Phaeton Black (Paranormal Investigator Series #1) by Jillian Stone | Brava Books (March 2012) Paperback, 335 pages | Steampunk Romance After being instantly drawn to the cover and having recently fallen for all things Steampunky, I sat down to enjoy what I hoped would be a wild adventure with plenty of sizzling sexual chemistry. However, while I got plenty of rustles between the proverbial bed sheets, I was left rather disappointed. This is a shame, because you could see fragments of a truly brilliant novel hidden beneath. The book certainly…
Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk #1) by Bec McMaster Sourcebooks Casablanca (Sept 2012) | Ebook, 448 pages Steampunk Romance McMaster takes fairly standard romance, mixes in a little steampunk, a little paranormal and creates really great story. I was gripped by this novel from the first few pages and doing anything else went out of the window until I had finished. I think one of the reasons why I was so drawn into the story was that it was set in Whitechapel where I lived for almost 5 years. I enjoyed…
Wild & Steamy (Anthology) by Carolyn Crane, Jill Myles, Meljean Brook Self-Published (Aug 2011) Kindle Edition, 119 pages Paranormal & Steampunk Romance KITTEN-TIGER & THE MONK by Carolyn Crane Reviewer: Gemma Reading shorts in an anthology can be a hit or a miss at times. You either have the short stories, which are part of a series that read like they are deleted scenes and you really need to be up-to-date with that series to have a Scooby on what is going on. Or you have the other short stories, that although they…
Wicked as they Come by Delilah S. Dawson (Blud Series #1) Pocket Books (March 2012) Paperback, 394 pages Steampunk Romance Wicked as they Come is the first book in a new paranormal romance series by debut author Delilah S. Dawson. And I have to say that is one of the most refreshing reads I have read in a while. It opens with Tish at the house sale of a former patient of hers. She is somehow drawn to a silver locket with a red ruby. She accidently steals it and through…
Blameless by Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate, #3) Orbit Books (Sept 2010) Paperback, 294 pages Steampunk Romance Warning: contains spoilers for endings of Soulless and Changeless Blameless by Gail Carriger picks up where Changeless left off, with preternatural Alexia pregnant and cast out by her werewolf husband, Conall Maccon. As the news of her pregnancy is published in the local papers (with the implication of infidelity), she is then cast out by her family and forced to seek the help of loyal butler Floote, inventor Madame Lefoux and Conall’s Beta werewolf,…
