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        May 25, 2010
      
        Joe Informatico
      
        rated it
        really liked it
          
        
            Shelves:
              humour, 
              alternate-history, 
              science-fiction, 
              steampunk, 
              urban-fantasy, 
              love-story, 
              conspiracy, 
              vampires, 
              werewolves
          
    
              
            
Basically this book fuses the (hopefully waning) paranormal romance genre with the rising steampunk genre, to mostly good effect. This unusual twist means it avoids being a storm of cliches like, say, The Affinity Bridge. The romance, the supporting characters and some of the setting details are the strengths of the book, mostly distracting you from the  silly plot and the incompetence of the protagonists. The main characters spend so much of the book stumbling over the plot and their blossoming
  
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I think this my first foray into, um, paranormal romance, but the writing and characters had me in giggles. Of course, it's only a few steps up from a Regency romance...as escapist literature, I think it earned it's rating.
  
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        Jan 25, 2010
      
        Adalis
      
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