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Showing posts with label steampunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steampunk. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Steamborn by Eric Asher

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Rating: WARTY! Errata: "Jacob didn't think he'd never forget the cheers of the crowd that broke the calm." Double n...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

A Trace of Copper by Anne Renwick

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Rating: WARTY! I like the idea of steampunk as a genre, but I seem to have had little success with that genre from what I've so far...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

Cold Copper by Devon Monk

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Rating: WARTY! I've read material from Devon Monk before and enjoyed it which is why I picked this up, but this wasn't to my ta...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Manners and Mutiny by Gail Carriger

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Rating: WARTY! I read all four of this series and liked only the first two. I thought I was going to like this one until it became suc...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

The Clockwork Witch by Michelle D Sonnier

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Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Errata: "...she watched as her family prepa...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

Lady Mechanika the Clockwork Assassin by Joe Benitez, MM Chen, Martin Monteil, Beth Sotello

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Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I've read several Lady Mechanika stories now, b...
Monday, January 15, 2018

The Inventor's Secret by Andrea Cremer

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Rating: WARTY! You take Cremer with your coffee? Not me! Read decently by Leslie Bellair, this story still failed for me. Another au...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Lady Mechanika, Vol.1: the Mystery of Mechanical Corpse by Joe Benítez, Peter Steigerwald

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Rating: WORTHY! This gathers volumes 1 through five of the single comic books and was an advance review copy for which I thank the publ...
Friday, February 10, 2017

The Star Thief by Lindsey Becker

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Rating: WORTHY! Erratum: "The Mapmaker took in and impatient breath." - presumably should be " an impatient breath...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

The Devious Dr Jekyll by Viola Carr

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Rating: WARTY! I know exactly what you're thinking! Why oh why if he hated the first volume so much, did he ever begin to read the...

The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr

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Rating: WARTY! I read ten percent of this, and gave it up because it was so bad and so trope-ridden. There is nothing new here, nothin...
Monday, October 3, 2016

Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett

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Rating: WARTY! This one sounded from the blurb like it might make for an interesting read, but all that ultimately means is that the bl...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Cogling by Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

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Rating: WARTY! I was asked by the author if I would review this after I gave a favorable review to a previous novel by this author: Esc...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Scrivener's Moon by Philip Reeve

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Rating: WORTHY! This is an oddball steampunk novel to which I took an initial liking, and that stayed with me apart from an unfortunate...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

The Bullet Catcher's Daughter by Rod Duncan

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Rating: WORTHY! I'm not a series fan unless the series is exceptional, and this one managed to get under that wire even though it...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina Bates

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Rating: WORTHY! This novel is a classic example (and we've seen one or two on my blog!), of how much crap an author can feed me and...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Girl Genius Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank by Phil and Kaja Foglio

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Rating: WARTY! It's day three of the July Smack-Down, and we have Girl Genius up against Wonder Woman . I have to tell you that I...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason

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Title: The Clockwork Scarab Author: Colleen Gleason Publisher: Chronicle Books Rating: WARTY! Note: this is not to be confuse...