![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missingvolumeIn this early Victorian steampunk setting, cult followers of Byron have been trying for years to use Ada Lovelave, his daughter to fix a machine that will bring Byron’s soul into another body so he can live again. Magdala has worked at protecting Ada as a child and into adulthood. Using small and large deceptions along with a smattering of street children to gather information she is trying to find out who is behind the latest plot to bring back Byron and another plot to possibly kill Queen Victoria on her coronation day.
Magdala is very interesting as a character and has a good backstory that slowly comes out. With her friendships with the Rom, connections to academics with her coffee shop / lending library and her ongoing series of salons in the evenings she uses all of these treads to get to the center of a mystery. I did enjoy the story and the plot and it should be interesting if there are more books in the series.
Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Netgalley
Magdala is very interesting as a character and has a good backstory that slowly comes out. With her friendships with the Rom, connections to academics with her coffee shop / lending library and her ongoing series of salons in the evenings she uses all of these treads to get to the center of a mystery. I did enjoy the story and the plot and it should be interesting if there are more books in the series.
Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Netgalley
