cthuwu's review
(cleaning out my kindle) dnf @ 2% i opened this one up to find that i hadn't gotten all the way through it the first time i tried to read it. i got a couple of pages in this time and figured out why. just not my thing.
ms_m's review
3.0
Plenty of action in this book. The characters were fairly developed and I enjoyed their story. My min problem was at the end of the book there was background and information for characters not involved in this book (number 1). So massive spoilers for future novels. I HATE that.
serena_dawn's review
3.0
For the most part I enjoyed 'Assassins of the Steam Age' for what it was, good action and adventure and a bit of a mystery, some characterization was thrown in or out as the plot thickened - and those seeking a matriarchal society should look elsewhere.
This isn't a society with much gender equality or female empowerment. Yes, there is a queen (Din Nasin) and a female inventor (Taziri) and a exiled Aztec princess (Qhora), and the main antagonist and her cohorts are females but there are male counterparts who exceed their strengths and achievements, and ultimately win the day.
Syfax is a marshal of Marrakesh, and he and his partner Kenan urge the engineer Taziri after the explosion at a airfield to use her experimental (electrical, not steam) airship to chase after a rogue Ambassador Chaou on the airship Copper Crake.
With her captain Isoke Geroubi injured, and despite a daughter and husband waiting for her at home, and her own injuries, Taziri takes along Kenan, Syfax, their prisoner Medur Hamuy (once of Lady Sade's employ), and a doctor named Evander who desires to go to Orossa under the Queen's papers for his own reasons upon her airship, the Halcyon.
Along the way they save a pilot by the name of Ghanima, and Detective Kella who has her hands full with Lady Sade's assassins like Shifrah Dumah and a Doctor Medina that links to events in the disturbing trend of animal and human experimentation with mechanical technology.
It's a race against time to save the Queen and her family in Orossa, one which the exiled Aztec princess Qhora and her lover Lorenzo may suffer as the 'Trojan Horse' of Lady Sade's plots...
One thing is certain, after this, none of their lives will be the same.
This isn't a society with much gender equality or female empowerment. Yes, there is a queen (Din Nasin) and a female inventor (Taziri) and a exiled Aztec princess (Qhora), and the main antagonist and her cohorts are females but there are male counterparts who exceed their strengths and achievements, and ultimately win the day.
Syfax is a marshal of Marrakesh, and he and his partner Kenan urge the engineer Taziri after the explosion at a airfield to use her experimental (electrical, not steam) airship to chase after a rogue Ambassador Chaou on the airship Copper Crake.
With her captain Isoke Geroubi injured, and despite a daughter and husband waiting for her at home, and her own injuries, Taziri takes along Kenan, Syfax, their prisoner Medur Hamuy (once of Lady Sade's employ), and a doctor named Evander who desires to go to Orossa under the Queen's papers for his own reasons upon her airship, the Halcyon.
Along the way they save a pilot by the name of Ghanima, and Detective Kella who has her hands full with Lady Sade's assassins like Shifrah Dumah and a Doctor Medina that links to events in the disturbing trend of animal and human experimentation with mechanical technology.
It's a race against time to save the Queen and her family in Orossa, one which the exiled Aztec princess Qhora and her lover Lorenzo may suffer as the 'Trojan Horse' of Lady Sade's plots...
One thing is certain, after this, none of their lives will be the same.
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