Book Review: Nobel Secrets: An Aether Physics Novella
Nobel Secrets: An Aether Physics Novella by Cecilia Dominic
5 stars
Category: New Adult
Note: I read this as included in the Rogue’s Gallery Anthology.
Summary: Pauline has always kept her head down, not wanting to be noticed and content at having quiet time on her own at her job as a secretary at a prestigious university. Sensing others’ emotions has made her good at anticipating other people’s needs, and because of that she gets pulled in to help a young professor with his current invention who has had an emotional break down after a romantic breakup. The brother of the young professor, a handsome young duke, notices Pauline’s beauty and the caring she uses to help his brother with. All of which ruins her keeping a low profile with her mother’s killer on the loose and hunting for her.
Comments: I loved this regency romance. It’s trying to market on being a steampunk, though the only steampunk element was the professor’s invention which we never even see properly working. We only see Edward tinkering on it in a couple of scenes. It’s primarily a Regency drama (I read those too, so that wasn’t an issue) with all of the things you would expect in a period drama. We have the two from differing backgrounds trying to bridge the gap and an interfering mother and staff, a handsome man with a title who’s trying to avoid marriage though being driven toward it, a solitary woman a bit forward for her time, and all of the proper manners and customs of the gentry. It’s a Cinderella story with a murder mystery, Jack the Ripper style (Inspector Davidson of the Inspector Davidson series also puts in an appearance in this), and I do love a good Victorian mystery. Pauline’s powers to sense other people’s emotions was never explained. I loved the relationship between Christopher and Edward. And I would like to see Edward actually succeed at finding love, so I will be continuing with Eros Element.
5 stars
Category: New Adult
Note: I read this as included in the Rogue’s Gallery Anthology.
Summary: Pauline has always kept her head down, not wanting to be noticed and content at having quiet time on her own at her job as a secretary at a prestigious university. Sensing others’ emotions has made her good at anticipating other people’s needs, and because of that she gets pulled in to help a young professor with his current invention who has had an emotional break down after a romantic breakup. The brother of the young professor, a handsome young duke, notices Pauline’s beauty and the caring she uses to help his brother with. All of which ruins her keeping a low profile with her mother’s killer on the loose and hunting for her.
Comments: I loved this regency romance. It’s trying to market on being a steampunk, though the only steampunk element was the professor’s invention which we never even see properly working. We only see Edward tinkering on it in a couple of scenes. It’s primarily a Regency drama (I read those too, so that wasn’t an issue) with all of the things you would expect in a period drama. We have the two from differing backgrounds trying to bridge the gap and an interfering mother and staff, a handsome man with a title who’s trying to avoid marriage though being driven toward it, a solitary woman a bit forward for her time, and all of the proper manners and customs of the gentry. It’s a Cinderella story with a murder mystery, Jack the Ripper style (Inspector Davidson of the Inspector Davidson series also puts in an appearance in this), and I do love a good Victorian mystery. Pauline’s powers to sense other people’s emotions was never explained. I loved the relationship between Christopher and Edward. And I would like to see Edward actually succeed at finding love, so I will be continuing with Eros Element.
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