Her partner-in-crime, reluctantly thrown together, is Evaline Stoker, of Colleen Gleason's Gardetta Vampires family series. To be honest.I didn't find her too terribly smart, despite her self-professed assertion of being brilliant. Mina claims to be a scholar, and an admirer of her uncle's work.
Neglected by her father and abandoned by her mother, she is highly deductive (and thinks quite highly of herself), impulsive, completely lacking in social graces, and not altogether familiar with common sense, however book-smart and practical she is. Ever since the Moseley-Haft Steam-Promotion Act had been passed by Lord Cosgrove-Pitt and his Parliament, everyone in London had been keen on them and anything else that could be mechanized and automated.Our heroines are Alvemina (who understandably prefers to be called "Mina" instead of her full name) Holmes, daughter of Sir Mycroft Holmes and niece of the famed Sherlock Holmes. They ran on some sort of magnetic tracking system.
I disliked the new carriages, propelled by a steam engine and with no visible driver or engineer. We have steam-powered engines, trolleys, electricity is outlawed, we have robot-like machines used around the house to help ladies put on corsets and practice dancing without a partner. Victorian ideals and beliefs still prevail. The elements of steampunk are there, but they are so very minor as to be almost nonexistent in the book.
It can barely be called steampunk, because this is just a more mechanized, steam-powered version of Victorian London. This is a steampunk novel, but it is steampunk light. Miss Adler was offering me a way to prove that, despite my gender, I was a Holmes in more than mere name and the size of my nose.The setting is London, 1889. Overall, I would still recommend this for a is a light, easy, fun read. It is also bogged down by some truly stupid insta-loves and love triangles. It is mostly plot-driven, without much character development nor depth. Tonight, I ask, on behalf of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales: will you do what no other young women are called to do, and place your lives and honor at the feet of your country?”This book, while by no means perfect, was just a lot of fun. Who risk life and limb for their queen, their countrymen, and the Empire.
There are many young men your age who are called into the service of their country.
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