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Steampunk Mystery #1
Wes and Kit
Wes has a soft heart—even if it is a gear heart from when he was mechanicalized during the war. Now close to homeless and in desperate straits, he still finds himself taking on a stray dog—and helping out an injured man he stumbles across in an alleyway.
That's how he meets Kit. A harmless, gentle clock repairman with a heart condition of his own, Kit is in danger…because he's working on a certain clock.
He hires Wes to protect him until the danger is past…whatever its cause. But they find their feelings for each other are becoming too strong to ignore, despite the danger.
When a chance to solve the mystery presents itself, Wes finds he might just lose the man he's come to love…if he can't find Kit in time.
Length: 37,000 words
Steampunk elements, mystery elements, some violence
Heat level: Low
That's how he meets Kit. A harmless, gentle clock repairman with a heart condition of his own, Kit is in danger…because he's working on a certain clock.
He hires Wes to protect him until the danger is past…whatever its cause. But they find their feelings for each other are becoming too strong to ignore, despite the danger.
When a chance to solve the mystery presents itself, Wes finds he might just lose the man he's come to love…if he can't find Kit in time.
Length: 37,000 words
Steampunk elements, mystery elements, some violence
Heat level: Low
154 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 4, 2014
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June 12, 2016
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm very rarely disappointed with a Hollis Shiloh book, I have to read at least one a month!
A wonderful little steampunk story about two very likable, sweet men, who find each other just at the right time and fall head over heals in love.
A wonderful little steampunk story about two very likable, sweet men, who find each other just at the right time and fall head over heals in love.
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September 20, 2021
1 star.
Reasons:
- editing
- ending. Imagine each Sherlock Holmes or Hercules Poirot mystery ending somewhat like “they caught the villains and handed them over to the police/a colleague to investigate further. The end.” No mystery solved. No curiosity satisfied. This is simply a cheap trick to make us buy the next book. Guess what, I am not doing it; the trick backfired.
Reasons:
- editing
- ending. Imagine each Sherlock Holmes or Hercules Poirot mystery ending somewhat like “they caught the villains and handed them over to the police/a colleague to investigate further. The end.” No mystery solved. No curiosity satisfied. This is simply a cheap trick to make us buy the next book. Guess what, I am not doing it; the trick backfired.
July 7, 2019
2.5 stars. Slightly better than "it was okay." This was pleasant enough, but not super exciting. It was easy to read and I kept going, but it never really grabbed me. The characters are nice, but there's a lot of internal hand-wringing and worrying and not-communicating about feelings and the relationship is a bit fraught throughout because they don't talk to each other and just brood instead. The non-ending was kind of odd and I'll note that the mystery is not concluded in this book. It continues in the next book, but I'm not excited enough about this to want to read the second book, so I'm just going to leave it hanging.
September 11, 2015
Hollis Shiloh, in this series allied with the world presented in the novella “Gear Heart,” offers us gentle romances with quirky details and interesting people. There is a little magic, very little sex, and a quiet context that feels English but sounds American (not unlike Jordan Hawks’ Whyborne and Griffin novels, which are set in a fictional American city but feel very British somehow). We’re in a historic period sometime after World War I, a time that seems far away but modern, too. Steampunk 1920s?
It is a time when gay folk are fairly well accepted, but men who have mechanical parts – who have been “mechanicalized” – are mistrusted and even demonized by the world at large. Mechanicalized men have few rights, cannot hold official positions, and are presumed to be dangerous and criminally inclined.
Doesn’t that sound familiar?
One of these men, Wesley Newton, was saved from death and turned into a super-soldier, only to be cast aside when the war was over. Starving and nearly homeless, he struggles to shake off a stray dog who is following him, when he discovers a frail young man who’s been beaten in a dark alley.
The young man is Kit Fowler, a clockmaker and repair man, whose fragile heart has kept him sequestered most of his life. Kit hires Wes to be his bodyguard, while he repairs a clock for a local millionaire that seems to be the cause of the assault against him.
The alternating POVs in this book let us inside Wes and Kit’s heads. Shiloh’s writing is comfortable and warm, and we loll our way through the book wondering how it will all come out in the end.
Not a heart-pounding read, but a pleasant one. For those who seek romance in its purest form in a slightly oddball world, Shiloh delivers the goods.
It is a time when gay folk are fairly well accepted, but men who have mechanical parts – who have been “mechanicalized” – are mistrusted and even demonized by the world at large. Mechanicalized men have few rights, cannot hold official positions, and are presumed to be dangerous and criminally inclined.
Doesn’t that sound familiar?
One of these men, Wesley Newton, was saved from death and turned into a super-soldier, only to be cast aside when the war was over. Starving and nearly homeless, he struggles to shake off a stray dog who is following him, when he discovers a frail young man who’s been beaten in a dark alley.
The young man is Kit Fowler, a clockmaker and repair man, whose fragile heart has kept him sequestered most of his life. Kit hires Wes to be his bodyguard, while he repairs a clock for a local millionaire that seems to be the cause of the assault against him.
The alternating POVs in this book let us inside Wes and Kit’s heads. Shiloh’s writing is comfortable and warm, and we loll our way through the book wondering how it will all come out in the end.
Not a heart-pounding read, but a pleasant one. For those who seek romance in its purest form in a slightly oddball world, Shiloh delivers the goods.
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January 5, 2018This book was...free. The most annoying plot hole was that one character leaves the other at a hospital (after having found him badly beaten in an alley) and it's never explained how the hospitalized character just shows up on the doorstep of his rescuer the next day. There were others.
Not giving it a star rating because I don't want to be mean, but the bar must be really, really low in LGBTQ lit for this to be this highly rated. It's a mystery, supposedly, but the characters just bugger off at the end not having solved it.
It was a fast read, though. I'd have finished it in one sitting except I only read ebooks after my partner turns out the light, and I kept falling asleep.
If you are thinking of buying this for actual money, don't. If it's free on BookBub, etc., whatever, but there are much better stories on AO3 for free.
Not giving it a star rating because I don't want to be mean, but the bar must be really, really low in LGBTQ lit for this to be this highly rated. It's a mystery, supposedly, but the characters just bugger off at the end not having solved it.
It was a fast read, though. I'd have finished it in one sitting except I only read ebooks after my partner turns out the light, and I kept falling asleep.
If you are thinking of buying this for actual money, don't. If it's free on BookBub, etc., whatever, but there are much better stories on AO3 for free.
January 1, 2015
My first, completed read of 2015. I so love hoe Hollis weaves these stories. Off to read the next installment.
July 27, 2025
2.5⭐
I did not see myself giving 2 stars to Hollis Shiloh steampunk book but this was messy. It started out nice, but soon turned disjointed, in a things-just-happen kind of way. And it was even too long! Skeffield rambles about his grandpa forever, there are very glued-on "obstacles" or should I say speed bumps on the way and it was weird how Kit's POV was told in 1st person. (It worked in Wicked Gentlemen but here it just seemed strange.) The mystery part isn't even resolved.
I don't think this is a good introduction to this series since all the other books have been way more coherent and better. I'm glad I didn't start with this one, might have missed out on the rest!
I did not see myself giving 2 stars to Hollis Shiloh steampunk book but this was messy. It started out nice, but soon turned disjointed, in a things-just-happen kind of way. And it was even too long! Skeffield rambles about his grandpa forever, there are very glued-on "obstacles" or should I say speed bumps on the way and it was weird how Kit's POV was told in 1st person. (It worked in Wicked Gentlemen but here it just seemed strange.) The mystery part isn't even resolved.
I don't think this is a good introduction to this series since all the other books have been way more coherent and better. I'm glad I didn't start with this one, might have missed out on the rest!
July 10, 2015
4 stars for the meat of the book, 1 star for the ending
I had a hard time scoring this one.
The writing is darn good, the dialogue was realistic, and the characters were likeable. The setting, an alternate steampunky earth, was delightful. Even two thirds of the way through, I was most pleased with this one; any scoring difficulty would be in choosing between four and five stars.
But then we got toward the end, and I had two fairly major problems with it.
The first is pretty specific to me—meaning, many of you might not find it to be a negative worthy of such specific criticism. It's one reason (of many) that people think I'm odd. See, I can handle a lot in my books. I'm not easily frightened. Extreme violence doesn't bother me if there's a reason for it. I'm not put off by swearing. And when I see people marking down book scores for stuff like that, I have to forcibly stop myself from rolling my eyes long enough to remind myself that we all have our things, and that's OK.
And it's good that I'm successful most of the time, because now we come to one of my things:
My other issue with the ending itself, which was tepid and unsatisfying. To be clear, it didn't seem precisely like a cliffhanger, which I'd define as a non-ending designed to manipulate us into buying another book in order to finish the story. No, this was more like...the story petered out without actually revealing the good stuff. At its heart, this book is a mystery. Someone is after Kit the clock repairman because of...well, nobody really knows why. And underneath the love story, this little novella's whole point is finding out what someone could want from Kit enough to attack him.
So what we're left with is a short little story that starts out with a great deal of promise, but then goes off the rails. It's like waiting all day for dessert only to find out you're getting some lo-cal, artificially sweetened monstrosity, and you can't figure out why you're the only one who's disappointed.
I think I'm probably more honked off because the story was chugging along so well for the first two thirds or so; had it been rotten from the start, I would've shrugged and read something else. Having no potential is one thing, but having it and not living up to it is quite another.
So, I guess, read at your own risk. Most of this story is quite nice, but the finish is less than terrific. Too bad.
I had a hard time scoring this one.
The writing is darn good, the dialogue was realistic, and the characters were likeable. The setting, an alternate steampunky earth, was delightful. Even two thirds of the way through, I was most pleased with this one; any scoring difficulty would be in choosing between four and five stars.
But then we got toward the end, and I had two fairly major problems with it.
The first is pretty specific to me—meaning, many of you might not find it to be a negative worthy of such specific criticism. It's one reason (of many) that people think I'm odd. See, I can handle a lot in my books. I'm not easily frightened. Extreme violence doesn't bother me if there's a reason for it. I'm not put off by swearing. And when I see people marking down book scores for stuff like that, I have to forcibly stop myself from rolling my eyes long enough to remind myself that we all have our things, and that's OK.
And it's good that I'm successful most of the time, because now we come to one of my things:
My other issue with the ending itself, which was tepid and unsatisfying. To be clear, it didn't seem precisely like a cliffhanger, which I'd define as a non-ending designed to manipulate us into buying another book in order to finish the story. No, this was more like...the story petered out without actually revealing the good stuff. At its heart, this book is a mystery. Someone is after Kit the clock repairman because of...well, nobody really knows why. And underneath the love story, this little novella's whole point is finding out what someone could want from Kit enough to attack him.
So what we're left with is a short little story that starts out with a great deal of promise, but then goes off the rails. It's like waiting all day for dessert only to find out you're getting some lo-cal, artificially sweetened monstrosity, and you can't figure out why you're the only one who's disappointed.
I think I'm probably more honked off because the story was chugging along so well for the first two thirds or so; had it been rotten from the start, I would've shrugged and read something else. Having no potential is one thing, but having it and not living up to it is quite another.
So, I guess, read at your own risk. Most of this story is quite nice, but the finish is less than terrific. Too bad.
January 19, 2016
I really wanted to like this more than I did.
It really felt like I was reading the first draft, with corrected spelling. It had a very unfinished feeling to it that had nothing to do with the plot, per se, or the characters, per se...it all just felt very...unpolished.
I would very much like to read a polished, final draft of this story.
It really felt like I was reading the first draft, with corrected spelling. It had a very unfinished feeling to it that had nothing to do with the plot, per se, or the characters, per se...it all just felt very...unpolished.
I would very much like to read a polished, final draft of this story.
September 3, 2014
everything for me feels fake and forced : the romance, the drama, the "mystery" (if you can call it that), the suspense and the writing style:
September 17, 2014
This story was weirdly bland, emotionally to nice and warm. I felt nothing at the end, mostly because it was a weird story. And if there isn't even ounce of emotion, than this story isn't worth to be read.
November 19, 2015
This is basically a steampunk version of Out of the Rain, only twice as long. The second half is all plot nonsense not at all related to the romance so eh. :P
June 12, 2015
I liked this book -- a sweet combination of mystery and romance with a bit of steampunk. I could have actually done with more of that steampunk atmosphere -- I'd love to know more about that world. Wes and Kit are engaging characters, and I kept reading because I cared about them and the dog.
June 19, 2016
I discovered another series I love from a prolific MM romance author I love. This one has a Victorian feel. It's about a downtrodden hero cast out by society due to no fault of his own, a stray mutt, and a craftsman with a weak heart.
June 6, 2015
The premise of the story was good, but the writing wasn't. The characters were very two dimensional and the writing was flat.
February 12, 2016
Kit a clock repairer with a heart condition and Wes, a discharged army man whose heart was replaced with a mechanical one. Story drags in places and the treasure is never found.
May 18, 2020
3.25 stars
I might have liked the beginning of this more than the ending. The way Wes and Kit meet is so beautiful -- if not for Lolly begging for more attention, Kit would've died in the alley. I don't know if I wanted anything explicit really, but maybe just a bit more of the sweet regard and tenderness that Wes and Kit have for each other? I feel like this is a little too surface-level and I wanted some deeper romance. Still, overall very well wtitten and a nice steampunk magic world.
I might have liked the beginning of this more than the ending. The way Wes and Kit meet is so beautiful -- if not for Lolly begging for more attention, Kit would've died in the alley. I don't know if I wanted anything explicit really, but maybe just a bit more of the sweet regard and tenderness that Wes and Kit have for each other? I feel like this is a little too surface-level and I wanted some deeper romance. Still, overall very well wtitten and a nice steampunk magic world.
December 10, 2022
This is so sweet. The mystery is not solved and I don’t care because I enjoyed this so much I will be moving on to the second book. Wes and Kit fit together so perfectly and they need each other so much. They stumbled a few times, but they found their way back to each other.
September 22, 2021
3.5 stars
June 24, 2023
A short novella. Sweet romance, cute characters, unique world.
June 8, 2015
Wes’ mechanical heart is as big as they get. That’s why he adopts the stray mutt following him, and helps the stranger he finds beaten in the street. Kit is a gentle soul who stays out of trouble, until the day he’s attacked by strangers in the street. He’s resigned to his fate until a big and brawny man with kind eyes helps him. Kit looks for him afterwards, and offers him a job as bodyguard. Wes accepts the job without knowing what the real danger of his new position is: risking his own heart…
Another sweet story by Hollis Shiloh, Wes and Kit deals with two damaged men who fear they will never live a full life, but manage to achieve happiness at the end. Both Wes and Kit suffer from a heart condition, of a very different sort. Wes had his heart replaced in war by a mechanical device, something that turned into a patriot at war time but makes him a pariah at peace, rejected by a society which does not want to remember the ugliness of war. Scarred, starving and desperate for a job, he still has enough goodness in his heart to share his meagre lunch with a stray dog, and help the soft-voiced stranger he finds in an alleyway. On the other hand, Kit is a quiet man who enjoys his job repairing clocks and suffers from a weak heart which obliges him to take medicine and look after himself carefully. He knows his heart is faulty and can give up at any moment, but fortunately it is strong enough to fall in love with the gentle giant who rescued him in the street. Wes, Kit and Lolly (the fierce mutt) form a strange but happy family. They have to face dangers, put up with stress and separation, and learn to face and overcome their fears: In Wes’ case, he is afraid of not being good enough for Kit, and of involuntarily hurting him. That’s why he fuses over Kit, and tries to protect him even from his own affection… Kit fears that Wes overprotective nature may prevent him from loving Kit to the full, turning him into a cripple and so a liability in Wes’ life. Fortunately, they get over it and have a well-deserved HEA. Secondary characters play an important role in the book, and probably in books to come following the same plot, because the main mystery in the book is yet unresolved by the end of Kit and Wes story. Where is the treasure everybody seems to be looking for? Hopefully, we’ll find about it in the next book.
Hollis Shiloh writes delicious little stories, about characters touched by magic in some way, but otherwise entirely human in their fears and hopes. I think that’s why I love her books: Because despite the magic and extraordinary in her steampunk mysteries, the feelings underlying them feel familiar. I find her stories endearing and enjoyable, and highly recommendable.
Another sweet story by Hollis Shiloh, Wes and Kit deals with two damaged men who fear they will never live a full life, but manage to achieve happiness at the end. Both Wes and Kit suffer from a heart condition, of a very different sort. Wes had his heart replaced in war by a mechanical device, something that turned into a patriot at war time but makes him a pariah at peace, rejected by a society which does not want to remember the ugliness of war. Scarred, starving and desperate for a job, he still has enough goodness in his heart to share his meagre lunch with a stray dog, and help the soft-voiced stranger he finds in an alleyway. On the other hand, Kit is a quiet man who enjoys his job repairing clocks and suffers from a weak heart which obliges him to take medicine and look after himself carefully. He knows his heart is faulty and can give up at any moment, but fortunately it is strong enough to fall in love with the gentle giant who rescued him in the street. Wes, Kit and Lolly (the fierce mutt) form a strange but happy family. They have to face dangers, put up with stress and separation, and learn to face and overcome their fears: In Wes’ case, he is afraid of not being good enough for Kit, and of involuntarily hurting him. That’s why he fuses over Kit, and tries to protect him even from his own affection… Kit fears that Wes overprotective nature may prevent him from loving Kit to the full, turning him into a cripple and so a liability in Wes’ life. Fortunately, they get over it and have a well-deserved HEA. Secondary characters play an important role in the book, and probably in books to come following the same plot, because the main mystery in the book is yet unresolved by the end of Kit and Wes story. Where is the treasure everybody seems to be looking for? Hopefully, we’ll find about it in the next book.
Hollis Shiloh writes delicious little stories, about characters touched by magic in some way, but otherwise entirely human in their fears and hopes. I think that’s why I love her books: Because despite the magic and extraordinary in her steampunk mysteries, the feelings underlying them feel familiar. I find her stories endearing and enjoyable, and highly recommendable.
June 9, 2017
3.5* Review written for Love Bytes Reviews.
Discharged from the military after having undergone a magical procedure to replace his damaged heart with a mechanical one, Wes is struggling to get by. Treated like a second class citizen for the one thing keeping him alive, the former soldier is desperate to find work yet refuses to stoop to thievery, no matter how much easier it would make things. When he comes across a man that’s been beaten and left for dead, Wes knows he has to stop and help. What starts as just a random encounter soon spirals into more as the man, Kit, first hires Wes as a bodyguard and then later when the two men give into the attraction and connection they feel growing between them. Everything seems to be going well for the men when Kit’s latest job goes from simple to complicated and unless Wes acts quickly, his chance at a future with Kit could end up a thing of the past.
This was actually a nice read; I liked both main characters quite a bit, though I will admit to Wes being my favorite, and the point of view goes back and forth between them so I had a good chance to get to know them both. The ‘mystery’ aspect of the book isn’t what I was expecting; not quite a cozy mystery but also not a hardcore ‘whodunnit’ either. I liked how the author made the entire thing feel like a treasure hunt without coming across as too campy but I would’ve liked to have seen more of it before the end. The steampunk elements were nicely incorporated into the story as well but, again, I would’ve liked to have seen them a bit more prevalent than they actually were. I am, however, of the opinion that when it comes to steampunk, more is always better. 😀
This was an interesting story that totally worked for me as an introduction to this universe; Wes and Kit were in a pretty good place by the end of the book but I was a little disappointed that I never got to see the ending to the ‘mystery’. There are several more books out in this series, however, and I’m looking forward to seeing this (hopefully) concluded in the next installment. If you enjoy your mysteries flavored with a little steampunk, this might be something you want to check out.
Discharged from the military after having undergone a magical procedure to replace his damaged heart with a mechanical one, Wes is struggling to get by. Treated like a second class citizen for the one thing keeping him alive, the former soldier is desperate to find work yet refuses to stoop to thievery, no matter how much easier it would make things. When he comes across a man that’s been beaten and left for dead, Wes knows he has to stop and help. What starts as just a random encounter soon spirals into more as the man, Kit, first hires Wes as a bodyguard and then later when the two men give into the attraction and connection they feel growing between them. Everything seems to be going well for the men when Kit’s latest job goes from simple to complicated and unless Wes acts quickly, his chance at a future with Kit could end up a thing of the past.
This was actually a nice read; I liked both main characters quite a bit, though I will admit to Wes being my favorite, and the point of view goes back and forth between them so I had a good chance to get to know them both. The ‘mystery’ aspect of the book isn’t what I was expecting; not quite a cozy mystery but also not a hardcore ‘whodunnit’ either. I liked how the author made the entire thing feel like a treasure hunt without coming across as too campy but I would’ve liked to have seen more of it before the end. The steampunk elements were nicely incorporated into the story as well but, again, I would’ve liked to have seen them a bit more prevalent than they actually were. I am, however, of the opinion that when it comes to steampunk, more is always better. 😀
This was an interesting story that totally worked for me as an introduction to this universe; Wes and Kit were in a pretty good place by the end of the book but I was a little disappointed that I never got to see the ending to the ‘mystery’. There are several more books out in this series, however, and I’m looking forward to seeing this (hopefully) concluded in the next installment. If you enjoy your mysteries flavored with a little steampunk, this might be something you want to check out.
February 25, 2017
A wonderful blend of romance, steampunk, friendship, and a little mystery. I'd be lying if I said it could have had a bit more of the technology that steampunk is known for but it's lack of said science fiction factor did not take away from the enjoyment I've come to expect from Hollis Shiloh.
June 24, 2015
51 of 75 for 2015. I keep coming across the term "steampunk," especially with reference to the visual arts, but this is the first piece of fiction I've read that claims the word. A well-written mystery/romance, set it an alternate universe where humans can be kept alive by fitting them out with mechanical parts--think of a late 19th or early 20th century bionic man--and reminiscent of George Nader's 1979 sci-fi novel Chrome, this is the story of two men, one a watchmaker and one partially mechanical, who are brought together by chance and end up falling in love. Of course in the middle of all of this is the mystery behind the chance that brought them together, a mystery solved in the course of the novel. There's also the theme of forbidden love, indeed the idea of one character being an untouchable. We can also read the ongoing story of how we send our young men to war, then abandon them when they return home. There is even a story line about how wealth is able to work around such issues. The mystery involved is clean and intriguing, but I classify this as a romance because of the obvious connection between Wes and Kit. I'll read more of Hollis Shiloh's work.
January 31, 2016
Well, Wes and Kit (Steampunk Mystery #1) certainly was an interesting start to this series! The world building was a little short of the mark for me... I was expecting a bit more "mechanicals"... but that truly wasn't a problem. I thought both Kit and Wes were adorable, and I liked the fact that there was basically no angst between them... just a sweet, loving person helping another sweet, loving person! Lolly was a welcome addition to the family and the mystery was slow building and not to drawn out! We met a lot of interesting characters and hopefully we will see more of them in future books (I hate to look ahead when reading a series) and I am curious to see if Robert is the next one to met his "man"! :)
This story wasn't a "reach out and grab you" mystery, but it did keep my interest enough to compel me to move on to the next book in the series, without delay!!!
This story wasn't a "reach out and grab you" mystery, but it did keep my interest enough to compel me to move on to the next book in the series, without delay!!!
January 24, 2016
I truly enjoyed it up until the ending. The first part is primarily about their relationship and it's very sweet and made me melt. I enjoyed the romance, with the exception of Kit and Wes's somewhat neurotic brooding and uncertainty about each other's health and the health of the relationship. There is some mystery in this part about why Kit is being threatened but it seems to stall. In the second part of the book, the couple have come together and the mystery becomes the foremost focus of the story. It's really engrossing and I followed along eagerly. Things reach a crescendo and then just end. The mystery isn't solved. This really, really ticked me off. My only solace is that there are two more books in this series and perhaps the case is solved there. Very disappointing and took my rating down a star.
November 6, 2015
My first steampunk and I don't think it'll be my last either. Also my first Hollis Shiloh book. I look forward to reading more of her novels.
Wes and Kit was a really sweet story. I loved both Wes and Kit and how they worked around their differences to find happiness. I was a little disappointed that the mystery portion of the story wasn't fully solved at the end, but no matter. The boys get their HEA and thanks to Kindle Unlimited, I can go read the next installment and see if the mystery comes to a close. There wasn't very much sex in this story either, but that was refreshing for me after the last few books I've read. Sometimes you need a straightforward love story that stays out of the bedroom.
Wes and Kit was a really sweet story. I loved both Wes and Kit and how they worked around their differences to find happiness. I was a little disappointed that the mystery portion of the story wasn't fully solved at the end, but no matter. The boys get their HEA and thanks to Kindle Unlimited, I can go read the next installment and see if the mystery comes to a close. There wasn't very much sex in this story either, but that was refreshing for me after the last few books I've read. Sometimes you need a straightforward love story that stays out of the bedroom.
September 6, 2015
This was a really good read. I would have said even a five star but there was just not quite the "wow" to it that would allow me to say five, so 4.5 stars. It was a very sweet story. I really liked the characters and how the author worked in the different "heart" conditions so that the men could relate in a way. I thought Lolly was also a lovely addition. You see how gentle Wes is even being a "mechanical" man. Kit is just sooo sweet and you can't help but feel like Wes...just want to coddle the man! The mystery was interesting and it would have been good to see that one tied up but there are other books after this one that I THINK will cover that.
June 3, 2015
I loved this story. I was totally involved from start to finish, and really didn't want the book to end. I look forward to the next installment.
Wes and Kit meet one night, Wes is prowling the streets looking for food, when he comes across Kit in an alleyway, discovering he is injured, Wes helps Kit to hospital and so begins an unlikely friendship, which slowly grows into something more. But Kit's attack is not random and he is still at risk from harm and the two work together to try and find out the mystery and to try and understand why Kit is being targeted.
A sweet romance with elements of steam punk giving a lovely mix of historical and fantasy. Thanks
Wes and Kit meet one night, Wes is prowling the streets looking for food, when he comes across Kit in an alleyway, discovering he is injured, Wes helps Kit to hospital and so begins an unlikely friendship, which slowly grows into something more. But Kit's attack is not random and he is still at risk from harm and the two work together to try and find out the mystery and to try and understand why Kit is being targeted.
A sweet romance with elements of steam punk giving a lovely mix of historical and fantasy. Thanks
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