A review by mimosaeyes
Unseemly Science by Rod Duncan

4.0

Better than the first book in the trilogy! I really got a sense of depth and complexity here, a sense of a wider world and a bigger narrative. The public autopsies plot-line was also really in line with the Victorian fascination with the macabre; a nice touch in a steampunk novel. I also like where all the character dynamics are going, particularly

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Elizabeth's relationship to Tinker and Julia respectively (and with John Farthing, if I'm being honest)

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Having

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the person Elizabeth is commissioned to find, wind up ice-zombie dead is barely better than the person actually dying, in the first book

, and I wasn't too down with that. Still, excited to see where the third book goes!