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A review by suzjustsuz
The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook
5.0
4.5
What a wonderful start to a very rich and multi-layered new steampunk world! The book read like an urban fantasy story for the first half of the book, setting up the world and the lore and the alternative history. The second half of the book was full of action, adventure, swash buckling, air shipping, automata using, bad guy beating, all obstacle over coming romance.
At first the hero was difficult to like, but as the world filled out and my connection with the society, which was healing from 200 years of subjugation and near total cultural decimation, deepened I began to understand that the hero wasn't unlikeable so much as just clumsy. He had no frame of reference from which to work. The same could be said, in different ways, about the heroine.
This series is definitely added to my list of series I follow.
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My first Meljean Brook. It's also the first in a series of what is currently only one. Steampunk, PNR, UF. Let's see what all the hoopla is about. :) I was going to read Heku series next, but there are seven of those and I need a break, a smutty break. Maybe this will be just the thing. READING!
What a wonderful start to a very rich and multi-layered new steampunk world! The book read like an urban fantasy story for the first half of the book, setting up the world and the lore and the alternative history. The second half of the book was full of action, adventure, swash buckling, air shipping, automata using, bad guy beating, all obstacle over coming romance.
At first the hero was difficult to like, but as the world filled out and my connection with the society, which was healing from 200 years of subjugation and near total cultural decimation, deepened I began to understand that the hero wasn't unlikeable so much as just clumsy. He had no frame of reference from which to work. The same could be said, in different ways, about the heroine.
This series is definitely added to my list of series I follow.
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My first Meljean Brook. It's also the first in a series of what is currently only one. Steampunk, PNR, UF. Let's see what all the hoopla is about. :) I was going to read Heku series next, but there are seven of those and I need a break, a smutty break. Maybe this will be just the thing. READING!