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A review by eososray
Phoenix Rising by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
3.0
With my recent conversion to steampunk fan, I have been on the hunt for good books in the genre and this book seemed to fit the bill.
Kick-ass heroine and a Mr know-it-all combine forces to solve a cold case in the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences.
This is a classic buddy cop book, set in a steampunk universe. The Victorian world was well done and there were some great action scenes. I thought the characters a bit typical, one careful cop and one devil-may-care cop, forced to work together and they end up making a pretty good team. Maybe I just watch too many cop shows and the formula is starting to bore me.
I did like the storyline, the evil society was a bit bizarre and I really wanted to jump in and give them a good punch, which I imagine was the intent of having such a bunch of chauvinists in the story. I hope that most of the whining has been done in this book and the next will just be a good action packed adventure.
Kick-ass heroine and a Mr know-it-all combine forces to solve a cold case in the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences.
This is a classic buddy cop book, set in a steampunk universe. The Victorian world was well done and there were some great action scenes. I thought the characters a bit typical, one careful cop and one devil-may-care cop, forced to work together and they end up making a pretty good team. Maybe I just watch too many cop shows and the formula is starting to bore me.
I did like the storyline, the evil society was a bit bizarre and I really wanted to jump in and give them a good punch, which I imagine was the intent of having such a bunch of chauvinists in the story. I hope that most of the whining has been done in this book and the next will just be a good action packed adventure.