"Rife with Steampunkian Elements, this Urban Fantasy in an Alternate London Promises a Damn Good TIme"
Phoenix Rising
By: Tee Morris
Genres: Fantasy Steampunk
Posted: June 16, 2011
Eliza D. Braun is far from an ideal agent. She tends to adapt the Ministry's protocols to the needs of the moment which has landed her in the archives herself. She and her new partner Books manage to find adventure beyond the tomes and artifacts when they uncover new leads in a case Eliza's former partner was pursuing (before he was forcibly retired from the Ministry). In her opinion the case should never have been dropped. Any force or organization that was leaving bodies lying about without bones or skin was dangerous and directly related to the mission of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. She need only whip Books into proper field-agent shape and she can do a final service for her former partner.
Rife with Steampunkian elements, PHOENIX RISING is an eminently satisfying adventure into the world of an alternate Victorian London, one ruled by the power of steam mixed well with arcane forces. I can't remember having such a good time caught up in a story unless it was seeing Indiana Jones for the first time. Books and Braun will linger in the back of my mind until their next adventure (Cogs and Corsets) comes to my greedy hands.
Book Summary
Evil is most assuredly afoot--and Britain's fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegade...and a librarian.
These are dark days indeed in Victoria's England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the river Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences-- the Crown's clandestine organization whose area of expertise is the strange and unsettling--will not allow its agents to investigate. But fearless and exceedingly lovely heroin, Eliza D. Braun, with her bulletproof corset and disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to let the matter remain unquestioned. And she's prepared to do whatever it takes, including dragging her timid new partner, librarian Wellington Books, along with her into the perilous fray.
A malevolent brotherhood is operating in the deepening London shadows, intent upon the enslavement of all Britons. And this dynamic duo of Books and Braun--Wellington with his encyclopedic brain, and Eliza with her remarkable devices--must get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plot...or see England fall to the Phoenix.
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by: Tee Morris
A Ministry of Peculiar Occurences #1
Harper Voyager
May 1, 2011
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Featuring: Eliza. D. Braun; Wellington Books
ISBN: 0062049763
EAN: 9780062049766
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