REVIEW: Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard

Dear Ms. Dennard,

It seems like steampunk books are all the rage these days. I admit I’ve yet to find a steampunk YA that I can really get behind but I keep hoping. And if there’s one thing that steampunk novels can’t seem to do without, it’s zombies. I’m pretty ambivalent when it comes to these reanimated corpses as narrative props in novels. For a while, it seemed like zombies would become the new vampire but that never quite happened. Despite these two things, I remain optimistic that I’ll...