A review by andi_h
The Brass Queen by Elizabeth Chatsworth

4.0

Delightfully fun, wonderfully silly, and hilariously absurd. In this steampunk world, Sheffield is the martial manufacturing heart of the British Empire and home to its most brilliant scientists, its greatest black market arms manufacturer, and some of its most ridiculous subjects. Of course, the reader is quickly introduced to the American spy; the heiress on the brink of losing her inheritance; the all-knowing, all-seeing butler; the heiress's rakish fop relative; and the Machiavellian wannabe determined to ruin their day. Just a few chapters into the book, the phrase "rollicking good time" popped into my head and it stayed there right to the end.