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This book is a good read with a good mixture or adventure and mystery. You never know what's going to happen until you keep on reading.


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Lady of Devices A steampunk adventure novel Magnificent Devices Book 1 eBook Shelley Adina Reviews

Different people read books for different reasons. Sometimes, there's just a hit/miss between a reader and a writer, and that's what happened with me with this book.

I love the world in this book. I think the premise overall has great promise.

I like the characters, but don't love them.

This book appears to be a setup for a series instead of an actual story, and that's fine; I'm cool with that. But there are a lot of missed opportunities here. A lot of things went right for the heroine when it would have been more interesting (and probably more realistic) if things had gone wrong. There's no real antagonist, no real villain, no deeper meaning, and there seemed to be no real growth in the character. The story seems more concerned with putting everyone into place for the next bit without having a real plot in this story that's anything other than a series of happenings.

I don't like this book enough to read the next one. And that makes me sad.
I'm going to start this with a heavy dose of honesty. This book is my first foray into the idea of steampunk. I've heard a lot about it, I have some friends who are pretty into the genre, but I wasn't sure it was 'for me'. I like historical fiction. However, it's sometimes hard for me to separate that from the idea that there is the possibility of technology that we don't have and that I will never understand. Even with the explanation of how this technology worked I'm still a bit muddled. I'm not too techie. Yes, it's coal and steam type technology but still, it's me. If you know me that those two words make total sense as their own sentence. However, the idea of befuddled aside, I really enjoyed this book. The story was engaging and the characters were mostly well developed.

I liked that the story flowed realistically with the time. I also liked that the technology was well explained so as not to leave a newbie to the genre trying to figure out exactly what it all meant. Though that whole balloon thing still has me guessing! (It's in the story, just roll with me already.) There were a few things I felt were a bit glossed over, however. I get that perhaps it was due to the young adult rating to the story but that again makes me feel like it should have been dealt with more deeply. This is where I put the spoiler alert. Someone dies. Killed. Actually two someones but I digress. The one I'm talking about was not intentional but it was at the hands of a main character. I feel like it was not really dealt with but more 'here's this thing that happened, I didn't mean it, here's where it takes us and then blam like it never happened'. For a young adult novel I feel like the idea that causing a death, regardless of intent, should not be depicted as something that doesn't create turmoil within the causer of the death. I think it sets the idea that causing a death is just 'one of those things'. That really bothered me.

I wish the characters of the children had been better developed. It was easy to forget who was who and not really get attached to them as people due to this. They have to have come from somewhere, banded together for some reason. I'm hoping more of this comes through in future installments. Despite these few things the story was good. It set a good tone and pace through the story. I liked the characters, even the less developed ones, and am grateful for the opportunity to read more of their story and where they go from here.
The concept was really good and I loved the crew she gathered around herself. However Claire herself is not really likable, she's arrogant and privileged. "You've had a tough life", "and no one knows that more than me."- seriously???? She was too proud to sleep in the bath at her idols house but she'll make a home with a bunch of urchins, then after a couple of nights thinks she knows what their life is all about?
Not too keen on the thing going on between Claire, Andrew and James. James didn't actually come off across as bad as I guess he was meant to in the laboratory because I just don't feel Claire's hate for him. She also makes a whole lot of assumptions about him based on their brief interaction that are the poler opposite, and yet both men have fallen hopelessly in love with her.
I didn't hate the story, I just don't like any of the people in it.
This book is a good read with a good mixture or adventure and mystery. You never know what's going to happen until you keep on reading.