The Inexplicables – Clockwork Century #4 – Cherie Priest
Release date: February 15th, 2013Publisher: Tor BooksAge Group: AdultPages: 366Format: PaperbackSource: Won Rector “Wreck ’em” Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of 1863, but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up, and on his eighteenth birthday, he’ll be cast out out of the orphanage. And Wreck’s problems aren’t merely about finding a home. He’s been quietly breaking the cardinal rule of any good drug dealer and dipping into his own supply of the sap he sells. He’s also pretty sure he’s being haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know—Zeke Wilkes, who almost certainly died six months ago. Zeke would have every reason to pester Wreck, since Wreck got…
Ganymede – The Clockwork Century #3 – Cherie Priest
Release date: January 1st, 2013Publisher: Tor BooksAge Group: AdultPages: 352Format: PaperbackSource: Won The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he’s happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money’s good, he doesn’t think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects. But becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly’s first legal gig—a supply run for the Seattle Underground—will be paid for by sap money. New Orleans is not Cly’s first pick for a shopping run. He loved the Big Easy once, back when he also loved a beautiful mixed-race prostitute named Josephine Early—but that was a decade ago, and he hasn’t looked back since. Jo’s still thinking about him,…
Dreadnought – The Clockwork Century #2 – Cherie Priest
Release date: December 1st, 2012Publisher: Tor BooksAge Group: AdultPages: 400Format: PaperbackSource: Won Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy’s husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, she’ll catch a train over the Rockies and—if the telegram can be believed—be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle. Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail…
Featured series – April: ‘The Clockwork Century’ by Cherie Priest
April has already arrived and gave us a few wonderful, warm and sunny days here in Belgium. Unfortunately the rain has come again and the sun only shows itself occasionally. So to brighten my days, I’m reading an amazing series that I want to feature on the blog this month: ‘The Clockwork Century’ by Cherie Priest. As always, feel free to read along with me! I’m a big steampunk fan, though I only discovered the genre last year. ‘Boneshaker’, the first book in ‘The Clockwork Century’ series was actually the first steampunk book I ever read and I loved it. A while ago I won the 4 books (at the…