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Book 5 in the Magnificent Devices series!
You can choose your friends, but you cannot choose your family ... or can you?
Now sixteen, the twins Lizzie and Maggie are educated young ladies who have not been called “the Mopsies” in years … except by their guardian, Lady Claire Trevelyan. With the happy prospect of choosing their own future, the girls can leave their dodgy past behind, and Lizzie can bury her deepest childhood memories where they can do no harm. Upon her graduation from school, Lizzie is awarded an enormous honor—but can she pay the price? Is she ready to be separated from Maggie and become the woman she believes she was meant to be—or will old habits tempt her into defiance and plunge her into disaster?
On a dare, Lizzie picks the wrong man's pocket and nearly loses her life. But these frightening events bear unexpected fruit The dream Lizzie holds closest to her heart comes true in a most unexpected way. But this dream, too, comes with a price. Lizzie must decide whether her true family is the one she was born to … or the one she chose that long-ago day when the Lady of Devices steamed into their lives …
“This story is an excellent introduction into a new chapter in the Magnificent Devices series, showing the world can continue even with Lady Claire taking a back seat. This makes me immensely happy because it means one of my favourite steampunk series now has nearly infinite scope for continuation and expansion. May the series continue going from strength to strength!” —Fangs for the Fantasy, on A Lady of Resources
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This is a terrific series. I'm an English major so I'm fairly picky about writing quality and these, while light, are well-written. They're adventure tales with strong, likeable characters and many exciting events. You really get a sense of each character's personality and the cliffhangers throughout the book and at the end leave me wanting to keep reading! The stories are set in a world that is similar enough to ours to be familiar, but with steampunk add-ons that make it more interesting. Don't let the cover fool you...I know they look a bit like trashy novels on the outside but they're good quality writing with minimal violence and no real adult content (there's the occasional mention of "desert flowers" and a few people have died through the series after being shot by Claire's "lightning rifle", but other than that, they're PG).
I had a high level of anticipation for this novel. It was very hard for me to put it off for my holiday reading binge. I love the first four novels in the Magnificent Devices (as witnessed in reviews earlier on my blog). This installment has all of our lovely characters from the first novels, but takes the focus into the history of the Mopsies! I adored those two little ragamuffins and their tenacious spirit. I was so excited to hear they would be garnering their own spotlight.
Lady Claire's story had concluded with her departure to college for her dream of becoming an engineer. Now we are five years down the line at her graduation and the Mopsies graduation before making their higher education decisions. It is the first time we get to really follow the lives of the girls of the twins. Every orphan has a history even if most forget it and them (besides the Lady of course!). We were able to find the real family of Willie and its happily ever after. Now we get the chance to see where the Mopsies come from, and how they spectacularly ended up in the flock. Leave it to the Mopsies to do something with flourish.
Not only do the girls struggle for the first time in their lives over their character differences, they are struggling with their history. Neither remembers a childhood outside of rag-picking and thieving rich ladies who drive down the wrong streets. They are facing their next step in their education the (dreaded) Finishing School or continue on with their education in physics and maths. (Side tangent I greatly appreciated Ms. Adina's treatment of the feminine side of education. Lady Dunsmuir is certainly not a fop of a character because she went to finishing school and behaves as a well-bred lady. I truly find it refreshing in an era that is trying to churn out fem-bots of feminism by the dozens. You can be a strong, independent woman from the home if that is your choice and shouldn't be looked down upon.) They have been influenced by strong women of both persuasions. Which will they follow?
Back to the point at hand, Lady Clair may have created a home for them and love them, but it is nothing like family. That deep search for belonging and understanding a piece of ourselves is timeless.
I did miss Rosie, but the book easily garners a 5 star review. I highly recommend you go pick up a copy today.
I love this series of books but I was disappointed with this one. It is very slow off the mark. It was not until about half way through that we start to see some of the action that fill the previous books. Also I found by 20% of the book that I had worked out what the plot was leading towards.
As usual the author creates the perfect steampunk world in both the language she uses and the characters she creates, not to mention the great machines she weaves into her tales. The book is worth reading just to savor the wonderful world she has created.
If you are a follower of this series the book is essential reading as it probably creates the basis for some future books (I hope) but if you are a first time reader for this series go back to the beginning and read the books in order. This one is a self contained story but without the background of the previous books you will be disappointed.
These steampunk YA novels are great adventures. The audio is well read with voice changes made by the reader to indicate character. It helps visualize each of the secondary characters; they will become more important in subsequent novels.
I am an avid reader, and like to recommend books to young and old. I cannot read text currently, and so the audio availability was nice to have. The genre of steampunk is a great way to rethink the past, which is an interesting history lesson; fact and fiction blended, and it is up to you to suspend some reality, and to think about plausibility. The fact that the main character is instilling education, morals, and manners into orphaned children (with interesting pasts that will be revealed in time), is a refreshing change from what is typically in YA novels; Education is depicted as a prison sentence, and morals are something that only old spinters have. I enjoyed the role of women, but also that men still had a purpose because liberation had not been fully realized because of the time frame for the genre.
This novel (and the previous and following novels) are worth the time to read. Are there plot holes? Are characters believable? Are there unexpected twists, or hated outcomes? It all depends on your expectations. I believe that compared to some YA, and plenty of NYT best sellers, this novel has quality vocabulary for the age group intended, and many redeeming messages with no zombies, vampires, witches, or werewolves. Also, children are not killing one another or fighting against an overindulgent society blended in with the government, or scientists bound to save the world. It is earlier, more simple times.
Give these a try.
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