Lady of Devices: A steampunk adventure novel: Volume 1 (Magnificent Devices)
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Good fun, but rife with Americanisms and fact-checking could be better,
Claire falls in with a gang of thieves – the very gang that had sought to rob her – when she discovers that they’re a rag-tag group of children
I generally liked this steampunk novel – about a titled, wealthy, but intelligent young woman on the brink of being forced into a straitjacketed existence that really doesn’t suit her character at all. It’s a stirring and interesting fantasy adventure and I enjoyed it considerably. But it’s not without fault. Shelley Adina’s world introduces a range of fictitious ‘devices’/wider applications of gadgets than actually occurred. All good so far. But there are also a number of factual inaccuracies/historical liberties taken in the background set-up that
The heroine wants to attend university at Oxford and there are several references to the institution, including the statement that “she could have gone for a master’s degree at Oxford with that” [‘that’ referring to an amount of money]. However, although Oxford had opened its doors to female students by 1889 (the year in which this novel is set), this was only a limited admissions policy. Women were able to attend lectures, sit examinations (and receive honours in those exams) but were debarred from receiving the degree that the same results and being born male would have entitled them to… until 1920.
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My other objection is that the book ends halfway through the story. As ther
The author evidently didn’t think her lack of attention to detail would matter but it matters enough to have warranted se
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|Good fun, but rife with Americanisms and fact-checking could be better,
Claire falls in with a gang of thieves – the very gang that had sought to rob her – when she discovers that they’re a rag-tag group of children in sore need of education, moral guidance and some serious scientific up-dating!
I generally liked this steampunk novel – about a titled, wealthy, but intelligent young woman on the brink of being forced into a straitjacketed existence that really doesn’t suit her character at all. It’s a stirring and interesting fantasy adventure and I enjoyed it considerably. But it’s not without fault. Shelley Adina’s world introduces a range of fictitious ‘d
The heroine wants to attend university at Oxford and there are several references to the institution, including the statement that “she could have gone for a master’s degree at Oxford with that” [‘that’ referring to an amount of money]. However, although Oxford had opened its doors to female students by 1889 (the year in which this novel is set), this was only a limited admissions policy. Women were able to attend lectures, sit examinations (and receive honours in those exams) but were debarred from receiving the degree that the same results and being born male would have entitled them to… until 1920.
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