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Juliet loved growing up at the seaside, although it meant lonely hours chasing after the other beach rats while her mother worked as a seamstress. Juliet never expected her seaman father to inherit a fortune and move the family to New Addison City. Suddenly her mother is a socialite and Juliet is best friends with a strong-willed girl who actually likes her. When Juliet's new friend welcomes her to the Runners, a gang that has plagued the East Coast for years, Juliet sees it as the opportunity to fit in, learn tricks, and make eyes at one of the hottest members. What the gang does isn't really wrong...right? She's used to being a pawn for the Runners, but she starts to question what she sees as harmless fun when the gang uses her to attack a young officer. Jonathan Montgomery vowed to end the Runners after they murdered his family. He joined the Riders, an elite police force dedicated to stopping the Runners' crime spree. They have put him in New Addison City, but rookie mistakes follow Jonathan as he struggles to accomplish his goal, until a young woman feeds him inside information to bring down the Runners. Between murders and secrets, Juliet will need to find her strength to help Jonathan, before the founder of the Runners crawls up from the sewers amongst her inventions to burn down the city. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I do not propose to go into the details of the plot - the synopsis copied and pasted from amazon.com below does that admirably - but will simply state that I found it enchanting, although as a slightly past middle-aged man I am probably one of the last people that the author was thinking of while writing it.
I have read several of Ms Elizabeth's books before that are set in her imagined alternative "steampunk" reality that is a cross between the Old West and Victorian England, where steam power and clockwork remain the pinnacles of technology.
It is fascinating how well she has moulded this world so that a myriad of stories can be set in it, each with its own slight twist on the central theme. In this case it is with a smidge of secret societies/gangs.
I'm not saying that it is without its faults, there are several Deus ex machina-type coincidences that are needed to move the plot along, and both the main characters have their faults and are not entirely likeable, but overall it works quite well and I enjoyed it a lot.
I recommend it to anyone who already likes the genre, and those who aren't familiar with it but would like to read something a bit different.
From amazon.com:
"Juliet loved growing up at the seaside, although it meant lonely hours chasing after the other beach rats while her mother worked as a seamstress. Juliet never expected her seaman father to inherit a fortune and move the family to New Addison City. Suddenly her mother is a socialite and Juliet is best friends with a strong-willed girl who actually likes her.
When Juliet’s new friend welcomes her to the Runners, a gang that has plagued the East Coast for years, Juliet sees it as the opportunity to fit in, learn tricks, and make eyes at one of the hottest members. What the gang does isn’t really wrong…right? She’s used to being a pawn for the Runners, but she starts to question what she sees as harmless fun when the gang uses her to attack a young officer.
Jonathan Montgomery vowed to end the Runners after they murdered his family. He joined the Riders, an elite police force dedicated to stopping the Runners’ crime spree. They have put him in New Addison City, but rookie mistakes follow Jonathan as he struggles to accomplish his goal, until a young woman feeds him inside information to bring down the Runners.
Between murders and secrets, Juliet will need to find her strength to help Jonathan, before the founder of the Runners crawls up from the sewers amongst her inventions to burn down the city. ( )