Book 5 / 100
Book: The Girl in the Steel Corset
Author: Kady Cross
ISBN: 978-0-373-21070-1
I came for the cover, I stayed for the story and the
characters! Yes, I’ve read some bad reviews, but I think they didn’t read with
an open mind… I loved this book.
Finley Jayne is not a normal young woman. A working class
young woman in London in 1897 with a difference, the time and the woman. It’s a
London where mechanical horses run amuck, automatons attack people and a
waxwork of Queen Victoria has been stolen from Madame Tussauds! Griffin King’s father, the late Duke of
Greythorne had led an expedition to the centre of the earth and discovered an
ore that generated energy, an ore that revolutionized the world. Finley’s
father had experimented with something else, tiny organisms that were found
there too, experiments that changed him permanently, changes he passed on to
his daughter.
Joining forces with Griffin and his friends, Sam, Emily
and Jasper, Finley finally finds a home for herself with others that have
special powers. Griffin has a direct line to the Aether, Sam has the strength
of many men, Emily is a genius and Jasper moves very, very fast. Together they
learn the origin of their abilities and work together to defeat a plot against
Queen Victoria.
In a world where the technology we have today is second
nature, the steampunk world to Kady Cross’s London 1897 is like a breath of
fresh air. It’s a world where robots, or automatons, act as assistants, waiters
and servers, larger robots help to dig in the London Underground, and
mechanical horse replace the more conventional horses. Battery powered lighting
replaces gas and velocycles are the brand new form of transport. It’s London
baby, but not as we know it.
Rating… 5 out of 5 gears. I would heartily recommend this
book to anyone who enjoys alternate history, or steampunk, or a slightly
different take on the idea of superheroes…
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