#3 A Conspiracy of Alchemists by Liesel Schwarz

This story is the first in a new series and it seemed like the author wanted to take too many things and add them to the stew of the story and hope it all works together.  We have  the plucky steampunk pilot heroine who meets with a business associate to take delivery of a package gets paid in a diamond bracelet that promptly has a absinthe fairy inhabited it.  There are vampires that are not called vampires working with the wizards that protect them from the other wizard faction. There is the hero wizard that amazingly enough our heroine falls in love with even though the reader doesn't see where the attraction comes from. And even then she runs hot and cold for him as the book goes on. The baddies were so obviously the bad guys, I'm surprised they were not twirling their mustaches.  I don't see myself reading any more books in the series. 



Digital review copy provided by Edelweiss