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Steamed: A Steampunk Romance (Paranormal Romance (Signet)) |  | Author: Katie MacAlister
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0451229312
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451229311
ASIN: 0451229312
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
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Product Description
Katie Macalister takes on Steampunk-and romance gets hotter than ever...
When one of Jack Fletcher's nanoelectromechanical system experiments is jostled in his lab, the resulting explosion sends him into the world of his favorite novel-a seemingly Victorian-era world of steampower, aether guns, corsets, and goggles. A world where the lovely and intrepid Octavia Pye captains her airship straight into his heart...
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 37
 Steamless romantic flop July 5, 2010
Acquanetta Ferguson (El Cajon, CA)
Let me start this review off by saying I was warned before reading this book that it wasn`t very good, but I was interested because well it is Katie MacAlister (whose other books I've enjoyed) and it was steampunk.
You can create a world and spend all your time giving details of that world, such as putting a table/chart in the back of the book that tells you how to interpret the time given in this world, but if the story isn't that good, then the ideas behind the story fails.
This is what happens in Steamed. Ms. MacAlister falls very short in this genre, and I for one hopes she 1) never goes back to this world, or 2) in the future, she actually researches better.
Where to start? There are so many disappointments for me as a reader. I was thrown out so many times of the story, that I found it very difficult to get through this story. It has taken a little over two weeks and I finally came to the conclusion that this book will never be a finished read.
Here is what the story is about. Jack Fletcher and his sister, though she is a minor character, are sucked into an alternate steampunk universe where he meets the captain, Octavia Pye, of an airship. They are transported to the ship by "mysterious" means. Octavia believes Jack and his sister are spies, but realizes they are not. He, Jack, repeatedly references things as "steampunk" much to the chagrin of the captain who does not know what he is talking about. So begins the beginning of my annoyance with this book.
I could go on but I got to about page 214 of a 352 page book. It was such a brutal read for me. There were just too many characters to keep up with, and so many little annoying characteristics about the characters that I was continuously thrown out of the story.
There were two minor characters I hated in particular, a Mr. Francisco and a Mr. Llama. I could not understand why the author thought these two were even worthy to write, from Mr. Francisco's irritating, clichéd flowery speech every time he addressed the captain to when Mr. Llama seemly appeared and disappeared at random and how the captain kept on remarking on this.
Captain Octavia Pye. She was a very irritating character and she is the heroine. From the "voice" to her mannerisms I so wanted to punch the captain in the face. Instead I opted to throw the book across the room. I even hated Jack. I mean really hated him. Why? Because he kept on talking about his world and the technology and it just irked me in general. These two characters really made no sense to me and the fact that they supposedly fall in love, well I just didn't buy it.
And before I forget, the biggest offense of all. The viewpoint is told in first person point of view. Which would be fine except that she (the author) goes back and forth between Jack and Octavia as the narrator of the story. Talk about an awful experience for the reader because it is hard to actually get into the story with all the head-hopping. I honestly wish she would have picked a character and stuck with that character throughout the story. Or better yet, maybe she should have opted for third person.
Bottom line, the book gets a 1. By the time the sex happened I was so no longer invested in the story. This could have been an awesome story, especially from the blurb, but I feel as if the author put too many characters in the book, which made for busy reading. When reading, I kept forgetting who was who until my eyes crossed in frustration. Not everyone should try to write in this genre and I believe Ms. MacAlister should really leave steampunk alone, well, unless she could actually go back and really research, read or watch other steampunk and see what works. If you still want to read this and see for yourself, well good luck. I for one need a Men in Black Neuralyzer to erase the memory of this book and replace the memory with say the Wild Wild West movie.
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 Steampunk Love! June 23, 2010
Amber Scott (Gilbert, AZ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Admittedly, I'm a Katie fan, but, wow. I love this world, I love the premise and how smart every detail is.
The crew of the ship kept me laughing and the romance is as top notch as ever.
I hope we'll see more of this genre from her because she executed it so well.
Huge disappointment June 15, 2010
D. Gross (Troy, MI United States)
Huge disappointment from one of my favorite authors. There is none of the clever dialog, humor, interesting plot, unique characters that typically are found in Katie's books. I couldn't make it past the first 40 pages; there was just nothing to hold my interest and make me want to read more. Thank goodness I got the book from the library.
 Bandwagon Jumping at its Worst May 31, 2010
jliles
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is what happens when a good author hears about a new "craze" and says I can write that. Taking a sub-par romance story and changing "car" to "zeppelin" and "bra" to "corset" does not make it steampunk! And the "twist" at the end is obvious almost from the 2nd chapter.
Just a sad attempt to jump on a bandwagon. If you want a GOOD steampunk style romance, check out the Parasol Protectorate, you'll be much happier.
Steam Job April 20, 2010
Ellen M. Oliver (Ashburn, VA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What an unpleasant surprise. Having assiduously collected all Ms. MacAlister's novels - ok - I do not Love all of them, the stories get lots better in the recent ones and the Dragon series are Incredible - I expected, because this is newer, that it would be really fun and really great. Nothing could be more wrong. It is hard to follow, makes little sense, is NOT funny and it was hard to care about the characters. The word obscure comes to mind. This time, I'm writing it off to "anyone can make a mistake." I hope this is not an example of what I have seen happen lately - instead of publishing author's new novels - they are publishing something not very good they must have been written long ago and passing it off as a new work. This makes the author look as if they have lost their touch. Technically, since it went unpublished it is new - but the skill and the story and the work do not hold up to what today's readers expect of that author today. I do hope this is true for this work because it's very bad and that is something I do not expect from Katie MacAlister. How do I make a decision to spend increasingly more money for increasingly less satisfaction in the future? Apologizes to Punk People who may have loved it - but this is how I see it.
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