Posts Tagged With: London Steampunk Series

Book Review: Heart of Iron by Bec McMaster

Reviewed by Heather C

1Title:  Heart of Iron
Author: Bec McMaster
Series: London Steampunk #2
Hero  & Heroine: Will Carver & Lena Todd
Genre: MF Steampunk
Length: 437 Pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Available at: Sourcebooks Casablanca, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance eBooks and Kobo
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: In Victorian London, if you’re not a blue blood of the Echelon then you’re nothing at all. The Great Houses rule the city with an iron fist, imposing their strict ‘blood taxes’ on the nation, and the Queen is merely a puppet on a string…

Lena Todd makes the perfect spy. Nobody suspects the flirtatious debutante could be a sympathizer for the humanist movement haunting London’s vicious blue blood elite. Not even the ruthless Will Carver, the one man she can’t twist around her little finger, and the one man whose kiss she can’t forget…

Stricken with the loupe and considered little more than a slave-without-a-collar to the blue bloods, Will wants nothing to do with the Echelon or the dangerous beauty who drives him to the very edge of control. But when he finds a coded letter on Lena—a code that matches one he saw on a fire-bombing suspect—he realizes she’s in trouble. To protect her, he must seduce the truth from her.

With the humanists looking to start a war with the Echelon, Lena and Will must race against time—and an automaton army—to stop the humanist plot before it’s too late. But as they fight to save a city on the brink of revolution, the greatest danger might just be to their hearts…
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Book Review: Tarnished Knight by Bec McMaster

Reviewed by Heather C

17181953Title: Tarnished Knight
Author: Bec McMaster
Series: London Steampunk #1.5
Hero & Heroine: Rip & Esme
Genre: M/F Paranormal Romance; Steampunk
Length: 162 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Release Date: April 2013
Available at: Amazon, Barnes and Noble & Kobo
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Blurb: In the steam-fuelled world of Victorian London, vampires, werewolves and slasher gangs stalk the night and a man made partly of metal is about to discover just how far he’ll go to protect the woman he loves…

After a vicious vampire attack left him struggling to leash the dark urges of the craving virus, John “Rip” Doolan thinks he’s finally starting to master the darkness within. The only thing that threatens to shatter his hard-won control is Esme, his closest friend and the only woman he’s ever wanted. If the stubborn beauty ever realized precisely what was going through his mind, their friendship would be ruined.

For six months, Esme has waited for Rip to recover and take her as his thrall, not daring to hope for more. Too afraid to put her heart on the line, she is devastated when Rip reveals that he never had any intentions of making her his.

But when a savage gang of Slashers start causing havoc in Whitechapel, Rip and Esme have no choice. They must face up to the depth of the passion that burns between them and forge a new relationship…or risk losing each other forever. Continue reading

Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, Heather C's Reviews, M/F, Published in 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster

Reviewed by Heather C

13507512Title: Kiss of Steel
Author: Bec McMaster
Series: London Steampunk #1
Hero & Heroine: Blade & Honoria Todd
Genre: M/F Paranormal Romance; Steampunk
Length: 423 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Release Date: September 2012
Available at: AmazonBarnes and Noble & Kobo
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  When Nowhere Is Safe

Most people avoid the dreaded Whitechapel district. For Honoria Todd, it’s the last safe haven. But at what price?

Blade is known as the master of the rookeries—no one dares cross him. It’s been said he faced down the Echelon’s army single-handedly, that ever since being infected by the blood-craving he’s been quicker, stronger, and almost immortal.

When Honoria shows up at his door, his tenuous control comes close to snapping. She’s so…innocent. He doesn’t see her backbone of steel—or that she could be the very salvation he’s been seeking. Continue reading

Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Heather C's Reviews, M/F, Published in 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment