The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire: Unseemly Science (Series #2) (Paperback)

from MickyFine

In this second book in the trilogy, Elizabeth Barnabus must evade the authorities as the Republic and the Kingdom work on a treaty that could force Elizabeth to return home where she'd be forced to be an indentured servant to a lecherous duke. Meanwhile, her best friend has gotten herself involve...

from NatalieSW

Entertaining steampunk/scifi quick-read. Not necessary to have read the first in the series to follow and enjoy the story. I may check it out.

from FrankErrington

Review Copy Unseemly Science is the followup to the well-received first book in the series The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire. In both books there are some elements of Steampunk, certainly an element of Alternate History, and the feel of a classic Sherlock Holmes story as told by Sir Arthur Conan Doy...

from Iambookish

I can never read a steampunk book without thinking of one of my favorite television shows, "Wild, Wild West", and even though this book is set in England and not in America it still embodies all the elements that make this genre enjoyable and fun to read, good writing and memorable characters. I ...

from passion4reading

With a treaty imminent between the Republic and the Kingdom that would see her deported and returned as property to the Duke of Northampton, Elizabeth is only too glad to take up the offer of an investigation into ice thefts from the founder of a charitable foundation in Derby. But what she uncov...