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A review by winterreader40
The Brass Queen by Elizabeth Chatsworth
4.5
Welcome to the Brassiverse, where we have a debutante in chainmail, a cowboy, and a kidnapping by steamwerks metal soldiers and assassins to kick things off in chapter 1, and I'm hooked!!
We have Constance our chainmail wearing heroine who is being hunted by assassins both visible and invisible for a business deal gone awry. She is intelligent, but not street smart, she's also a lonely, privileged princess kind of young lady unwilling to accept help or other people's opinions, because who would know anything better than her?
Then we have Trusdale our American cowboy who is impersonating his scientist brother on an undercover mission, he's very smart, practical, irritable, but he's still willing to constantly save Constance no matter how annoyed he is with her. I sympathized with him a great deal here, I regularly wanted to strangle her know it all self.
After the kidnapping Constance enlists, rather forcefully, Trusdale to help her solve the crime in a timely manner as she must elicit a proposal by Friday in order to be able to keep her home and lands. Stupid patriarchal rules!!
This is set in the time of Queen Victoria who apparently has the temperament of Alice and Wonderland's Queen of Hearts, but this focuses more on her nephew than her.
There's a brief turn with a god awful Canadian accent(personnel pet peeve), but otherwise I loved all the subtle humor and the pop culture references.
I received this as an ARC from NetGalley and CamCat Publishing.
We have Constance our chainmail wearing heroine who is being hunted by assassins both visible and invisible for a business deal gone awry. She is intelligent, but not street smart, she's also a lonely, privileged princess kind of young lady unwilling to accept help or other people's opinions, because who would know anything better than her?
Then we have Trusdale our American cowboy who is impersonating his scientist brother on an undercover mission, he's very smart, practical, irritable, but he's still willing to constantly save Constance no matter how annoyed he is with her. I sympathized with him a great deal here, I regularly wanted to strangle her know it all self.
After the kidnapping Constance enlists, rather forcefully, Trusdale to help her solve the crime in a timely manner as she must elicit a proposal by Friday in order to be able to keep her home and lands. Stupid patriarchal rules!!
This is set in the time of Queen Victoria who apparently has the temperament of Alice and Wonderland's Queen of Hearts, but this focuses more on her nephew than her.
There's a brief turn with a god awful Canadian accent(personnel pet peeve), but otherwise I loved all the subtle humor and the pop culture references.
I received this as an ARC from NetGalley and CamCat Publishing.