Geared For Pleasure by Rachel Grace (Elemental Steam #1) Erotic Romance-Steampunk March 6, 2012 Trade Paperback Berkley-Heat This is my very first foray into a story with a steampunk theme and I have to admit being a little bit lost in some ways. In Geared For Pleasure we enter into the alternate world of Theorrey where old and new are combined in a very intriguing way. Told in two separate but related stories, we meet Queen Idony’s two shield guards, Dare and Cyrus who are the Continue Reading
Review: Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook
Heart Of Steel (Iron Seas #2) by Meljean Brook Steampunk, Romance November 1, 2011 Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Give her a heart of steel.” “A heart of steel? But...why?” “Because there is no other way to survive.” When Captain Yasmeen tossed Archimedes Fox over the side of her ship in The Iron Duke for having the sheer gall of trying to commandeer it, she tosses him in a canal which shows Fox that she wasn’t trying to kill him per say, just give him a little wake Continue Reading
Review and Giveaway: Dead Iron by Devon Monk
Dead Iron (The Age Of Steam #1) by Devon Monk Steampunk Fantasy July 5, 2011 Paperback Roc Trade Favorite Quote: “I mean to find his killer. And there is nothing that will stand in my way.” Cedar Hunt and his brother Will were cursed with lycanthropy by a Pawnee God to hunt the Strange. Settling in the small town of Hallelujah, Cedar does some small time bounty hunting, haunted with the loss of his humanity and guilt of his brother’s death. When a small boy is stolen in the dead Continue Reading
Review: Phoenix Rising by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
Phoenix Rising (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences #1) by Philippa Ballantine & Tee Morris Steampunk April 26, 2011 Paperback Harper Collins Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Yes Books, I know. I’m such a bad, bad agent. I should be put across your knee and spanked.” BLURB: Evil is most assuredly afoot—and Britain’s fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegade and a librarian. These are dark days indeed in Victoria’s England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, Continue Reading
Review: Wilder’s Mate by Moira Rogers
Wilder’s Mate (Bloodhounds #1) by Moira Rogers Steampunk March 8, 2011 E-Book Samhain Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I like my women enthusiastic.” “It’s a wonder you can find any, unless you take care not to speak first.” Satira needs someone to assist her in rescuing her mentor, Nathanial. What she gets is Wilder. A devastatingly sexy bloodhound created by the Guild to hunt and destroy vampires. As Satira and Wilder make their way to Deadtown, the attraction between them Continue Reading
Review: Badlands by Seleste deLaney
Badlands by Seleste deLaney Steampunk Romance February 28, 2011 E-Book Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Ever is a warrior and has been patrolling the borders of the Badlands for the past seven years. The Badlands is a separate country, near Texas. It is her job to take the men the United States sends to prison, and keep them secure in the prisons of the Badlands. She is not afraid to kill men - anything to keep her Queen and the Badlands safe. But someone is out to Continue Reading
Review: Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott (Spiritwalker #1) September 2, 2010 Fantasy, Steampunk Paperback, 528 Pages Orbit Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote:”When I saw you coming down the stairs that evening, it was as if I were seeing the other half of my soul descending to greet me.” Catherine (Cat) Hassi Barahal’s life is about the change drastically when she is mistaken for her cousin and forced in to marriage with a cold mage she doesn’t know. When it comes to light that she is not her Continue Reading
Review: The Greyfriar by Clay Griffith and Susan Griffith
The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire- Book 1) by Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith November 18, 2010 Urban Fantasy, Paperback, 320 Pages Pyr Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “That a few marks on this paper can bring you my heart in my absence is great magic. Life is now a constant source of wonder.” In 1870 vampires declared war on the humans and swept through the Northern lands like a plague; destroying everything and everyone in their path. Millions of humans died. Millions more Continue Reading
Joint Review: The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook
The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook (The Iron Seas #1) Steampunk Romance October 5, 2010 Trade Paperback, 336 Pages Berkley Trade Reviewed by Mandi and Tori Two hundred years ago, The Horde hid nanoagents inside tea and sugar, and traded these goods with England. No one thought of anything – until the Horde activated the bugs. Using radio signals, the Horde was able to control everyone infected with these bugs – control their emotions and actions– their lust, anger, everything. But a Continue Reading
Review: Avalon Revisited by O.M. Grey
Avalon Revisited by O.M. Grey Paranormal/Steampunk Romance April 22, 2010 Blue Moon PressWhy I read: Review request from publisherFavorite Quote: Remember Arthur, I rebuked myself. Remember what it’s like to be human. As if I could after so long, but I faked it well enough.Arthur is a 350 year old Vampire, although he looks like a teenager living in the heart of the English ton. When he was mortal, he was the brother of King Henry VIII, and lover of Catherine, before he died and she Continue Reading