![]() ![]() ![]() The remaining population had been forced to flee or face starvation. Ash fell in thick layers over the land, and toxic volcanic gases poisoned half the island’s inhabitants. ![]() A volcanic eruption caused Icelanders to evacuate the island a century prior, but legends about witches and trolls still inhabiting the island abound.Ī century before, in the years following an eight-month fissure eruption, the Mist Terrors decimated livestock and crops. In Riveted, Brook takes readers to another part of the Iron Seas world: Iceland. Heart of Steel was just pure fun, a wholly entertaining classic adventure tale. ( Laura’s review echoes my sentiments.) However, I was extremely impressed by the world-building, which led me to try the first steampunk novel I’ve truly enjoyed, Heart of Steel (which has one of the worst covers in the history of bad covers). I wasn’t a fan of the first book in this series, The Iron Duke. Riveted, the third installment in Meljean Brook’s Iron Seas series, has a lot of appeal on the surface, but its real richness is the layered, complex exploration of identity against the backdrop of a skillfully-developed steampunk world. ![]()
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![]() As the story proceeds, Chee takes two steps forward in perceptiveness and one step back with his impulsiveness, disappearing during the investigation and frustrating the ever-patient Leaphorn. Jim Chee has been promoted and is working with Lt. The murders and plot of the book are complex, weaving together environmental exploitation, artifact selling, and the malicious manipulation of good men. On the Tano Pueblo, Sacred Clowns depict flawed humans before the perfection of gods, setting the framework for this story. ![]() In that vein, here are a few of my favorite southwestern mysteries. I recently read a quote by author Flannery O’Connor: “The best American fiction has always been regional.” When Tony Hillerman started the eponymous prize, he had no other stipulations for the entrants than that the books must be debut mysteries set in the American Southwest. ![]() ![]() It is the pansy dark you reach for when you're all darked out and one step from seeing a therapist. But what hope of that when he's a rejected half-breed? Like PREY, this book is not gritty uber-dark such as Cari Silverwood often writes. All he has ever wanted is to be wanted in return, to be loved and find a mate. Hoss Half Orc, half Shag, he shaves to blend into the mass of humanity populating the galaxies. ![]() Her biggest secret and fetish is her love of the big guys, like the orcs, but she would never ever act on that, unless she had nothing left to lose. ![]() She's in search of her past and her parents but who is she really? If she ever finds out who killed her parents, she will rain destruction down upon them, in some nerd-geek way, like by remote-opening the airlocks on their ship so they die horribly. He aims to upgrade his most intimate part but what does a man really need to be perfect again? Ember A Principle Data extraction expert employed by CESS Industries - a princess in lay terms. Baz Rutland A lost soul, a cyborg in search of a future. ![]() |