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strikingthirteen 's review for:
Arabella of Mars
by David D. Levine
This was great fun. I don't tend to go in for steampunk stories, and I still probably wouldn't say this is entirely a steampunk book, but a good story is a good story. Arabella Ashby, a girl born and raised on Mars with all the freedom and without the standard young lady in early 19th century England proprieties, then sent back to Earth with her mother and young sisters is an intriguing idea on its own. Did I mention that in this world space travel happens way sooner? And it's with airships?
That's how we lead but when news of a threat on her brother, who still lives on Mars, reaches her. Arabella ends up disguised as a boy and joins the crew of an airship in order to get passage there.
There are plenty of books out there were a girl disguises herself as a boy to get something done but it's the environment and the world, and how she's treated later that makes this one stand out from the crowd a bit. I'm eager to keep reading.
That's how we lead but when news of a threat on her brother, who still lives on Mars, reaches her. Arabella ends up disguised as a boy and joins the crew of an airship in order to get passage there.
There are plenty of books out there were a girl disguises herself as a boy to get something done but it's the environment and the world, and how she's treated later that makes this one stand out from the crowd a bit. I'm eager to keep reading.