The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Jun 18, 2011 ★Meghan★ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: epubs-pdfs, paranormal, young-adult, fiction, historical-fiction, science-fiction, mystery, steampunk, romance, series

I LOVED LOVED this book!!!

I would probably give this book a 4.5 stars and the only reason I would drop it a 1/2 star is because it was too easy to figure out who the villain in the story was.

The cover of this books is absolutely beautiful!!!! As is the title...very intriguing.

I loved the characters of this book. Finley is a girl who is struggling to find her way. She is just a common girl in the 19th century trying to find her place. Especially considering her dark side takes over within every ...more

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Jul 25, 2012 Nichole ~~The Grey Lady~~ rated it liked it

Shelves: read-2012

This wasn't the best book i ever read. It wasn't the worse either. It was pretty mediocre. I appreciate what the author was trying to accomplish, and I haven't ruled out reading other books in the series. i personally found it fall a little flat for me. It would have been nice to see some unique inventions, instead of steampunk versions of ones that already exist. I found myself rolling my eyes at the pocket telegraph and the aethernet machine. I thought both of those were kind of...lame. While ...more

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Jun 16, 2011 Prangon rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, read-in-2011, steampunk, victorian, i-own

I started this book first of all because it's steampunk. And second, well look at the cover!! The story details about mechanism was really good which makes the steampunk fan in me very happy. The entire placing and characters were well written and I am always a sucker for a strong female character so for me both Finely and Emily were great.
Although I did have some frustration while reading because of the changed up of point of views so frequently.

I give This
Four stars for the steampunk world
Thr ...more

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