A review by sarajean37
The Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato

2.0

Meh. If this is the pinnacle of steampunk fiction I've been led to believe, I'm clearly not the ideal audience. Like the lady's tree, this book has too many loose tendrils. It would work as steampunk or vaguely Wiccan fantasy or weird romance, but it doesn't really do well as all 3. Just like Octavia needs her magic circle to focus, Cato could do well with a similar story boundary. It wasn't bad; it just wasn't good.