April/May 2021 Recap

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Hello summer! Hard to believe we’re about to enter June and things feel like they’re finally getting back to normal. Yay vaccines!

I totally forgot to do a round-up last month, so I’m combining April and May into one post.

Review: You Only Love Twice by Bec McMaster

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You Only Love Twice
Bec McMaster
Publisher:Lochaber Press
Publication Date: August 14, 2018
Series or Standalone: London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #3
Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble– Goodreads
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MY REVIEW

Ever since we met Gemma in Mission: Improper, I was dying to get to her book. She’s one of the few truly new characters introduced in this series and I loved her from the first time we met her. A former assassin, turned spy who can kick some serious butt? Sign me right up.

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Review: The Mech Who Loved Me by Bec McMaster

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Cover for The Mech Who Loved Me by Bec McMaster featuring a blonde woman in a pale pink dress holding a notebook and a man with dark hair and a metal arm in a vest and shirt. Big ben and a bridge is in the background

The Mech Who Loved Me
By Bec McMaster
Publisher: Lochaber Press
Publication Date: June 27, 2017
Series or Standalone:London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #2
Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Goodreads
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MY REVIEW

I am so addicted to this series! When I saw the library didn’t have this book available immediately after I finished Mission: Improper, I did what any sensible person would do. I bought the ebook box set for the whole series.

Review: Mission: Improper by Bec McMaster

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Mission: Improper
By Bec McMaster
Publisher: Lochaber Press
Publication Date: August 11, 2016
Series or Standalone: London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #1
Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Goodreads
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MY REVIEW

When I found out there was a spinoff series to the London Steampunk series, I was excited yet also nervous. I loved the London Steampunk series so much – would the spinoff live up to my expectations? After reading Mission: Improper I think it is safe to say it the series will – and it might even surpass those expectations.

Review: Of Silk and Steam by Bec McMaster

May 17, 2021May 16, 2021 Dani @ Overflowing Shelf1 Comment

Of Silk and Steam
By Bec McMaster
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: March 3, 2015
Series or Standalone: London Steampunk #5
Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Goodreads
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MY REVIEW

Hard to believe it, but we’re at the conclusion of the London Steampunk series! And this might be the book I’ve been waiting for the most as I’ve been dying to get Barrons story since we met him in book one. He’s been such an intriguing secondary character and I was so excited to dive into this book.

Review: Forged by Desire by Bec McMaster

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Forged by Desire
By Bec McMaster
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: September 2, 2014
Series or Standalone: London Steampunk #4
Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Goodreads
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MY REVIEW

I didn’t read the blurb for this book before diving in as I honestly didn’t care what the plot would be, I just wanted to continue reading the series. And I have to say, this book wasn’t what I thought it was going to be, but that’s not a bad thing! I really enjoyed this one though it went in a totally different direction then I thought based on the characters it focused on.

Review: My Lady Quicksilver by Bec McMaster

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My Lady Quicksilver
By Bec McMaster
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: October 1, 2013
Series or Standalone: London Steampunk #3
Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Goodreads
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MY REVIEW

Oh, man. My Lady Quicksilver starts off with a bang and does not let up! In the third entry in the London Steampunk series, the story shifts to focus on Sir Jasper Lynch, the leader of the Nighthawks, and Rosalind Fairchild, aka Mercury the leader of the humanist movement.

Review: Heart of Iron by Bec McMaster

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Heart of Iron
By Bec McMaster
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: May 7, 2013
Series or Standalone:London Steampunk
Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Goodreads
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MY REVIEW

This is my second attempt at this review as I somehow lost the first version I wrote, which I bet was a lot better than this one since I’m writing this over a week or so since I read the book instead of the next day. Sigh. Technology.

Heart of Iron is book two in the London Steampunk series by Bec McMaster and it does not disappoint! I am in love with the world that McMaster has created and she manages to build on it even more in this book as we get even deeper into the politics at play within the Echelon and learn more about the verwulfen.

Review: Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster

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Kiss of Steel
By Bec McMaster
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: September 4, 2012
Series or Standalone: London Steampunk #1
Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – Goodreads

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MY REVIEW

I’ve been in a terrible reading slump the last few weeks and have been picking up books left and right only to have none of them hold my interest. And then I picked up Kiss of Steel on a whim and I was hooked. I’ve seen this book around for a while but never actually picked it up. After seeing a bookstack photo on Instagram for the series by author Bec McMaster I decided to see if the library had it as an ebook, and lo and behold they did.