Review: A Lady Can Never be Too Curious by Mary Wine
A Lady Can Never Be Too Curious
by Mary Wine
Series: Steam Guardians (#1)
Published by: Sourcebooks Casablanca
August 7th, 2012
Genre: Steampunk
Format: eBook
Source: Library Loan
Rating: 4 Stars
Beneath the Surface of Victorian Life Lies a Very Different World…Hated and feared by the upper classes, the Illuminists guard their secrets with their lives. Janette Aston’s insatiable quest for answers brings her to their locked golden doors, where she encounters the most formidable man she’s ever met.Darius Lawley’s job is to eliminate would–be infiltrators, but even he may be no match for Janette’s cunning and charm…
I have read Mary Wine before and I've liked her books and this one is no different although it's a different genre.
In this one, we get Janette Aston, a society lady that has to hide the fact that she is a curious intelligent woman because she is a lady and in her society knowledge is only for men. Women are only pretty decorations to be showed off.
Darius Lawley is the head guardian of a cell from a secret order called the Illuminists and his job is to make sure their secrets don't get out to the general public.
Darius and Janette meet when she goes into the Illuminists' (I think is called) Silent Chamber after donning the kind of clothing the Illuminist women prefer. She is a Pure Spirit, which means she can handle the crystals that power all the Illuminists' inventions without getting hurt.
From the moment she and Darius meet is fun to see how they try to stay apart from each other and how Janette struggles to strip years of proper rearing. The book is a combination modern and historical that makes for an exciting read trying to imagine what it could have been.
One funny fact about this book is the name of the Hawaiian King Kamehameha. It makes me think about Dragon Ball Z.
I didn't give it 5 stars because of where some things that were left in the air or were rushed in the end that they left me with more questions than anything. Hope they get solved or explained in greater detail in book 2 which I will most definitely be reading.
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