A review by abookishtype
The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter by Rod Duncan

4.0

The word Luddite is now a gentle insult for someone who doesn't like technology. Two hundred years ago, it referred to people who smashed the "infernal machines" of the Industrial Revolution and followed the fictional Ned Ludd. This is the point of divergence in Rod Duncan's Gas-Lit Empire series. In The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter, set about 150 years after the Luddites managed to grind technological advancement to a standstill, the United Kingdom has been split into two countries: the Kingdom of England and South Wales and the Anglo-Scottish Republic. The Kingdom was home to our protagonist, Elizabeth Barnabas, until a corrupt aristocrat bankrupted her father's circus and she was sold into indenture to pay off her father's fabricated debts. She fled north...

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