Steampunk Romance
What Goodreads says:
"A Gaslight Chronicles
novella
London, 1860
Police inspector Sebastian
Brown served Queen and country in India before returning to England to
investigate supernatural crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. If his
wifeless, childless life feels a little empty sometimes, that's not too great a
price to pay in the name of duty.
Minerva Shaw is desperately
seeking a doctor when she mistakenly lands on Sebastian's doorstep. Her
daughter Ivy has fallen gravely ill with a mysterious illness the same
illness, it seems, that's responsible for taking the lives of many of Ivy's
classmates.
Seb sniffs a case, and taking in
Minnie and Ivy seems the only way to protect them while he solves it. But as
mother and daughter work their way into his heart and Seb uses every magickal
and technological resource he can muster to uncover the source of the deadly
plague, it's he who will need protecting from emotions he'd thought buried
long ago."
I love the stories Cindy Spencer
Pape has created in the Gaslight Chronicles. Ashes and Alchemy fits right into the flow that started with
Steam and Sorcery. There is less
of the magickal in this story.
Instead there is more of attraction and romance. Inspector Sebastian Brown and Minerva
Shaw are a great couple. Minerva
does not expect romance and is only concerned with her daughter. Seb feels that he has let down everyone
close to him and has walled his heart off. Of course when life throws them together there is a good
story in the making.
It was great seeing characters from
the previous books. Each plays an
important part in Seb and Minerva’s story and each helps move the romance
forward. Ashes and Alchemy is a well-planned
and interesting story that left me with a nice warm feeling as Seb and Minera
got their HEA. Like previous stories there are some loose
ends in Ashes and Alchemy that seem to be hooks for future stories in the Gaslight world.
Ashes and Alchemy can stand-alone
but I recommend you read the previous books. The stories in the Gaslight Chronicles are all a fun
read. Each is novella length
making reading the entire series much easier.
Carina Press published Ashes andAlchemy by Cindy Spencer Pape in 2014.
I received an ARC of Ashes and
Alchemy from Netgalley.
2 comments:
I'm trying to find a series that would introduce my 13-year-old boy to Steampunk. He likes Rick Riordan Books, Orson Scott, LOTR. Do you think this series might be a good intro for him (the central character being a male is what makes me want to try it).
I think it may have more romance than he would want.
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