{"id":17498,"date":"2021-06-11T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=17498"},"modified":"2021-06-12T07:39:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T11:39:03","slug":"steam-sorcery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/17498","title":{"rendered":"Steam & Sorcery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steam & Sorcery<\/a><\/em> (2011) Cindy Spencer Pape<\/a> (Gaslight Chronicles)<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a>Set in London in 1851<\/p>\n

Sir Merrick Hadrian is a Knight of the Order of the Round Table–a secret organization going back to the days of King Arthur, tasked with keeping England safe from supernatural threats.<\/p>\n

Miss Caroline Bristol has been working as a governess since her mother died and she was left on her own.<\/p>\n

She had enough money saved to exist for a short time in genteel poverty, the same state she\u2019d known since her grandfather\u2019s death just before her sixteenth birthday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But after yet another employer places unasked hands upon her, she is once again seeking another position.<\/p>\n

Merrick had no plans for a family, but when he stumbles upon a group of magically inclined children (one of whom may be the illegitimate son of a knight) he feels obliged to take them in, and desperately needs a governess to help him tame these street children.<\/p>\n

Perhaps he could move into his club until his aunt and the staff got the little buggers under control. That shouldn\u2019t take longer than a year. Ten at the outside. He could live in rooms for that long, he was sure of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This series has a variety of supernatural beings, and I am always fascinating by the different takes authors take on supernatural beings.<\/p>\n

Once they were destroyed, vampyres only decayed as much as their corpse would have if left to decompose naturally from the moment of death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I do adore the love that Ada Lovelace gets here.<\/p>\n

While Countess Lovelace had originally used punch cards like those from jacquard looms to feed instructions into the machine, those had gone out of favor after only a few years, replaced by much smaller and easier to work with ticker-tape reels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a fun story, and I’m glad I finally remembered to go back and reread it.<\/p>\n

Publisher : Carina Press
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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