Play Book Tag discussion

Note- If you like books that can fill a lot of different challenges, put this on your tbr for future reference. It fits quite a few genres I don’t often like, but I was entertained. (Steampunk, retelling, gothic, ghosts, paranormal romance, werewolf, Victorian, mystery, and maybe even technology, medical, regency, urban fantasy, and veterans.).
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I enjoyed this steampunk retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It had a very gothic feel, but was full of interesting technical devices to make it steampunk. The heroine was a research botanist who visits a manor house to see her sick cousin who recently married. While there she encounters a beastly earl who fought in the war with her brother, several automatons, a ghost, a vampire, and a potential poisoning. I liked the creative way the author integrated technology into this Victorian story, including Tesla service communicators. . One of the characters even had a device in his heart that sounded like a pacemaker. I guess steampunk is growing on me.

I’m glad you managed to find a good one, Nancy!

Glad you enjoyed this one! I skipped to #4 because the Cinderella story sounded more interesting but I would be willing to fill in the rest starting with this one.

KateNZ wrote: "I’m glad you managed to find a good one, Nancy!"

Haha, I must really be mellowing, because even the exhumation of a body didn’t phase me. I might have hated it a year ago. I adopted a Zen attitude recently. Let’s see if it lasts through Thanksgiving. (I really hope I like my son’s new gf, I had a great mother in law, and I want to be one too.)

Jen K wrote: "Glad you enjoyed this one! I skipped to #4 because the Cinderella story sounded more interesting but I would be willing to fill in the rest starting with this one."

Great, let me know if you like it. I might try to fit it in. When I landed on retellings, I started #4 because the MC is an activist. They kept mentioning other characters that I recognized from the blurbs, so I switched to #1 first and stuck with it. I like the human rights angle in #4. The primary fact from #1 that might matter is that the cop in book 4 has a shifter friend.

NancyJ wrote: "Jen K wrote: "Glad you enjoyed this one! I skipped to #4 because the Cinderella story sounded more interesting but I would be willing to fill in the rest starting with this one."

Great, let me kno..."

Yeah, as the book continued I realized that all the couple friends were the MCs of the earlier books. It might have deepened the enjoyment but I didn't feel as if I was missing anything important. The rights angle was really interesting!