I’ve read several H.L. Burke’s novels before, including the excellent Heart of Curiosity, so I looked forward to her steampunk adventure of Nyssa Glass in the House of Mirrors. I had never read any of the other Nyssa Glass offerings and was intrigued by the title. This steampunk novella met […]
Morgan L. Busse’s Blood Secrets is the second of the Skyworld duology. In SkyWorld, the land has been overridden with a green mist containing deadly spores that reanimate corpses. Called “The Turned,” these zombie-like creatures roam the countryside. But the mist hasn’t reached the higher altitudes, so many people live […]
Secrets in the Mist, the first novel in the Skyworld series, is part adventure, part mystery, and all steampunk—a fascinating genre. Award-winning author Morgan L. Busse’s latest combines lighter-than-air transports with class inequalities and a strong undercurrent of Christianity into an unforgettable novel. Young Cass lives on the streets and […]
Eden’s Voice by Catherine Stein is a steampunk fantasy set in Ann Arbor, Michigan in autumn of 1904. It’s the advent of the 1900s with a bustling University of Michigan campus, a new invention called motorcars, and this odd sport known as “American football.” This isn’t, however, historical fiction, so […]
H. L. Burke’s Heart of the Curiosity is a steampunk fantasy adventure of exceptional quality and entertainment. Heart starts with two sisters, Leodora (Leo) and Musette (Muse), who make their way to a legendary theater called the Curiosity. Leo is there to help Muse obtain a position among the ballet […]
The Odin Inheritance by Victoria L. Scott is a steampunk, urban fantasy set in Cambridge, England and centered on a young lady named Ariana Trevelyan. She’s a college student, a tinkerer, and an expert dart-thrower. A game of darts opens the book—a skill Ariana has recently acquired. While she’s worked […]