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Review by Read Me for Steamed (Steampunk Romance (Signet))
(4 / 5)
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When Jack Fletcher (rogue adventuring scientist) and his sister Hallie (annoying waste of space character) find themselves aboard an airship held captive at the mercy of what appears to be a Victorian steampunk crew managed by Captain Octavia Pye they know that they aren’t where they’re meant to be. In fact Jack and Hallie seem to have time slipped into a fairly parallel world in which airships are the best way to travel, the Emperor seems to be at war with everyone and corsets are essential ladies attire (Jack seems excessively interested in corsets). Octavia must decide what to do with her stowaways but that won’t be an easy decision due to her building attraction to Jack and Hallie’s annoying habit of going missing and being put up for execution.
This is a funny and witty novel which takes steampunk and crosses it with a steamy romance (no pun intended). MacAlister’s other series involving dragons and vampires show that she can write ridiculous comedy novels better than most and that is very much what this novel is. The plot starts to make very little sense about half way through as the characters seem to lurch from one implausible siuation to another. If you like your steampunk to be serious and dare I say it intelligent – then this isn’t for you. If you like paranormal romance then this could be a step away fromt the genre – still romantic enough to be entertaining (if thats your thing) but a nice avoidance of all things vampy or werewolf-ie.
Review by L. A. Hardy for Steamed (Steampunk Romance (Signet))
(2 / 5)
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I picked this book up on a whim based on the setting. It started off well enough, but then lost itself in a rather tawdry plot that really didn’t go anywhere in particular. And if that’s the sort of detail that airship Captains are supposed to keep in their public logs, I dread to think what you’d find in their personal ones! Unless you enjoy Black Lace books, avoid.
Review by Mr. D. Harris for Steamed (Steampunk Romance (Signet))
(5 / 5)
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I love it. It’s utterly bonkers! Where’s the sequel?! Hurry up! Katie MacAlister has written some potboilers and contract-fulfilling books but this isn’t one of them. Maybe I just love goggles, corsets, steampunk and alternative histories? How anyone can take this series seriously is beyond me though. Roll on the next book (presumably concentrating on the annoying sister…?)
Review by ROROBLU’S MUM for Steamed (Steampunk Romance (Signet))
(1 / 5)
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This is the first book of KMac’s that I’ve started but not been able to finish.
I knew from reading about this book on various threads that it was going to be so different to anything else that she’s written, and as I adore the Dark Ones and the Aisling books, I thought I’d give it a try, but firstly I had to look up what Steampunk was about and having done so, I asked if my library would be getting it in. I am so glad that they did and that I didn’t fork out for the book, as I couldn’t get past chapter 3.
I tried to read it with an open mind, but the male lead Jack came across as very shallow and juvenile and rather irritating with his obsession with corsets, Octavia’s boobs and her female-ness, so much so that if he had been like this in this day and age in a modern workplace, he’d have been done for sexual harassment. His sister Hal (Hallelujah) might have been better, but at this point in the book she was still, understandably, slightly hysterical, and I couldn’t cope with her. Octavia herself seemed to be a complete and utter contradiction: corset-wearing (as undies, not outies), long-skirt-wearing, observing archaic customs but being a forward-enough thinking young Victorian-type woman in 2010 in an alternate world, to have had at least three lovers and not worried what others might think of this, or what it might mean to her future. She might have had some potential, but again, seemed to be flattered by Jack’s attentions…sad, really.
I couldn’t make sense of the new ‘world’ and how Jack and his sister reached there, though no doubt it has to do with quantum physics or the likes (gained this from being forced to watch endless Star Trek TNG episodes), but for me it was plain and simple…boring. It’s a shame, but even the author’s foreword seems to gently plead with her adoring public to at least try to like her new world – I wonder, did she know that this book was going to be tough-going?
Still, I’ve ordered the new Dark Ones tale that comes out in Nov 2010, though I’ve skipped Love In The Time Of Dragons, the May 2010 Silver Dragons book, as that series hasn’t so far lived up to Aisling’s tales.
Review by Val Birbeck for Steamed (Steampunk Romance (Signet))
(5 / 5)
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I’d not heard of steampunk – must be an American thing – looked it up on the net and many of Jack’s comments started to make sense, especially his comments regarding the wearing of corsets and his fixation on goggles – you have to read the book to understand.
The story is set in a “parallel Earth world” which has developed slightly differently – no electricity as it’s too dangerous and flight is by airship. Jack, a nanoengineer and his sister (Hallie) are “sent” to this parallel world and wake up on an airship. There’s William, Emperor of England & Prussia, who lives at Kew not Buckingham, Palace, and there’s been no “Victorian” age. Many interesting observations, especially Jack’s comments on he could make a fortune if ………. eg he could “invent” the internal combustion engine.
A good read, hope there’s to be a series