World of Solace: The Mark of the Dragonfly (Hardcover)

from katsmiao

Overall I liked this book. The beginning was very strong and immediately caught my attention. The characters are unique and well developed, and the action moves at a fast pace. The second half of the book was a bit slower. There's still a good story and good action, but it wasn't quite like the ...

from bookwren

Good science fiction novel for middle-readers with strong female and male characters. Piper, the heroine, is a scrapper who rescues an injured girl, Anna, during a meteor storm and promises to take her home to the city of Noveen, far to the south. Their journey is fraught with danger, laced with ...

from rivkat

On a resource-constrained world where strange things (music boxes, copies of The Wizard of Oz, etc.) fall out of the sky in toxic meteor storms, a young girl ekes out a living as a scavenger and mechanic, since she has an almost eerie talent for repairing machines. One day, she rescues another gi...

from acargile

This novel is a steampunk fantasy book. Piper lives in Scrap Town #16 and is a scrapper. Every day the sky opens and meteors fall while the inhabitants wait in shelters underground. When the storm dies out, the scrappers run to the fields to see what came from the sky. Objects are found, restored...

from katsmiao

Overall I liked this book. The beginning was very strong and immediately caught my attention.The characters are unique and well developed, and the action moves at a fast pace.The second half of the book was a bit slower. There's still a good story and good action, but it wasn't quite like the beg...