A review by the_bard
Along Came a Wolf by Adam Dreece

3.0

I smart, cute twist on both fairy tales and steampunk. The setting is packed with characters who are clear analogues for characters from classic fairy tales and folk tales, but it's all played completely straight (except for one of the main characters cleverly lampshading it early on) in a world without magic but rife with inventors and developing technology. The characters and the plot is all fairly straightforward, but there's a nice subtext of the conflict between technology for the elite versus technology for everyone (which I think is an essential conflict for any "-punk" genre fiction). I wish I'd read this when I was younger, because I would have wanted to be one of the Yellow Hoods--so this is a great book for imaginative, curious kids (as well as imaginative, curious adults).