{"id":2656,"date":"2011-11-22T18:55:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T23:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2012-05-02T13:31:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:31:26","slug":"miss-bramble-and-the-leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2656","title":{"rendered":"Miss Bramble and the Leviathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0042P5IA6\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=B0042P5IA6\">Miss Bramble and the Leviathan<\/a><\/em> (2010) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/painter_kristen.php\">Kristen Painter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0042P5IA6\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B0042P5IA6\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/miss-bramble-and-the-leviathian.jpg?resize=73%2C110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"miss-bramble-and-the-leviathian\" width=\"73\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2657\" \/><\/a>This is more of a short story than even a novella, so I can&#8217;t say it was worth the $3 purchase price.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t bad, it just wasn&#8217;t awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Typical steampunk romance, with female character who loves gears and cogs and thinks no one will ever love her and is of course stunningly gorgeous once she&#8217;s cleaned up.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the father is the cad in the story, which was an interesting twist, but not enough of a twist to make it a really really good story.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 5.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Bramble and the Leviathan (2010) Kristen Painter This is more of a short story than even a novella, so I can&#8217;t say it was worth the $3 purchase price. It wasn&#8217;t bad, it just wasn&#8217;t awesome. Typical steampunk romance, with female character who loves gears and cogs and thinks no one will ever love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-romance","category-steam-punk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-GQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2667,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2667","url_meta":{"origin":2656,"position":0},"title":"Steam &#038; Sorcery","author":"Michelle","date":"November 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Steam & Sorcery (2011) Cindy Spencer Pape First off, this is a Steampunk romance, with equal weight being given to both descriptors. 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