The publisher provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. With steampunk features (a steamcycle and steam-stream gun!), cameo appearances by the main characters’ more famous relatives, a time traveler, handsome love interests, and two ahead-of-their-times heroines, it sets a rollicking pace that carries the reader all the way through. I even realized that the steampunk setting is superfluous. But their strengths complement each other in ways they each come to respect as they work together to solve the mystery.Īs the beginning of a series for young adult readers, The Clockwork Scarab is lots of fun. Despite its neat premise, then, The Clockwork Scarab disappointed rather than fulfilled me. Mina has inherited the Holmes’ nose and prefers her laboratory to parties. Eveline is beautiful and part of the society scene. The two bristle at working together at first, because they are so different. Eveline Stoker and Mina Holmes are sure the girls have been murdered, and evidence points to the presence of a secret society that may endanger others. Young women have been found dead, supposedly from suicide, with mechanical scarabs near their bodies. The time is late 19th century London, a city that has outlawed electricity in favor of steam. What would happen if Bram Stoker’s sister, trained in killing vampires, teamed up with a master of observation, Sherlock Holmes’s niece? Colleen Gleason answers that question in her novel for young adults, The Clockwork Scarab.
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