The Language of Flowers
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The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas...
The Napoleon Complex
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Napoleon stood before a stormy sky. In his hand was a scroll, and on that scroll were characters....
The Return: A Supernatural Masterpiece
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Arthur Lawford is meandering through a graveyard in a melancholy mood, brooding on his current...
In the Flesh
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Adam O'Riordan's remarkable first collection traces the hidden paths from past to present, from the...
Lost and Gone Forever
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A man wakes in a cell. He doesn't know who he is or how long he has been here. He doesn't even know...
Murder on the Serpentine: Thomas Pitt Mystery 32
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The queen of the Victorian mystery, New York Times bestseller Anne Perry returns with the 32nd novel...
Childhood and Cinema
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Since its inception the world of cinema has embraced the image of the child and both extended and...
The Modern Peasant: Adventures in City Food
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This is the winner of the Fortnum & Mason Food Book of the year award 2014. Inspired by those who...
Fire Stations
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The architecture of Britain's fire stations is not a simple story of form following function. The...
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1) in Books
Jan 6, 2021
2 stars for The Strange Case... and 3 stars for The Girl in...
I wasn't sure what to expect with this. It isn't my usual sort of read, though I have read quite a few steampunk books (Lindsay Buroker mainly).
Some aspects of this book I really liked, like the different abilities of Griffin's friends, the storyline was also quite intriguing although I figured out who the bad guy was by about half way through.
Things I wasn't so keen on: the steel corset only came into play after the half way point; I was expecting it to be part of Finley from the start. And the romance. I know that in Victorian times it wasn't acceptable to be left alone with someone of the opposite sex without a chaperone and to just be all in your face with love and romance but I read for the romance and although you know they have feelings for each other, nothing actually happens.
I don't think I'll be continuing the series.