RomBkLove
Immersed in Books
Category: Steampunk
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This review was first published at Love in Panels: I adored the first book in this duology and so I had high expectations for this romance. I was eager to go back into this world and and explore the flip-side of the tropes from the first book. Unlike Galen and Olivia who meet during an assassination attempt…
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There are all sorts of heroes and heroines. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Aliens, Aristocrats, Assholes and Sweethearts…. Some types come in and out of vogue, others seem perpetually popular? Which ones standout to you and why? What makes them memorable? I don't think there is just one type of hero or heroine that appeals to me,…
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I read a lot of good books this year, some really great ones, and a lot of okay ones. This is purely subjective list of some of my favorite books from this year. Not all the book on this list were 5 star books for me, but they are books that I still think about…
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This summer I read Jeannie Lin’s beautiful “Lotus Palace” and the beauty of that book won her a place on my auto-buy list. I have been stockpiling her other earlier China-set historical romances for the TBR. Gunpower Alchemy is the first book in the Gunpowder Chronicles a steampunk flavored speculative/alternative history fiction series set in…
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Meljean Brook and Nalini Singh were my gateway drugs into Romance. Back in early 2012, I started watching Felicia Day’s Vaginal Fantasy Book Club. One of the early bookclub selections was the Iron Duke, which I was lucky enough to get from my local library. I was sucked into the her Steampunk/alternate history world, The…
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