Steampunk
From Goodreads:
For
years, the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences has enjoyed the favor of Her
Majesty the Queen. But even the oldest loyalties can turn in a moment…
Having
narrowly escaped the electrifying machinations of Thomas Edison, Books and
Braun are looking forward to a relaxing and possibly romantic voyage home. But
when Braun’s emergency signal goes off, all thoughts of recreation vanish.
Braun’s street-wise team of child informants, the Ministry Seven, is in grave
peril, and Books and Braun must return to England immediately.
But when the intrepid agents
finally arrive in London, the situation is even more dire than they imagined.
The Ministry has been disavowed, and the Department of Imperial Inconveniences
has been called in to decommission its agents in a most deadly fashion. The
plan reeks of the Maestro’s dastardly scheming. Only, this time, he has a
dangerous new ally—a duplicitous doctor whose pernicious poisons have infected
the highest levels of society, reaching even the Queen herself.
Books and Braun are off on a new
adventure and it is the most dangerous one yet. It starts when the Ministry Seven go someplace they should
have skipped and ends when they discover something from Books past. In between they face danger as the
tension builds and builds.
For me he interaction between Books
and Braun is what makes this such a great series. In The Diamond Conspiracy there is a more of the romance
element and it adds spice to the story.
I did think the first half of the
book was better than the last half.
Even though the action and tension continued I thought the authors got
just a little too cute with their side characters. I was left wondering how the discover at the end would play
out in the next book.
Ace published The Diamond Conspiracy
by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris in 2015.
I received an ARC of The Diamond Conspiracy from Netgalley in
return for a honest review.
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