This is a Victorian steampunk adventure novel, featuring two secret agents from the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, who investigate a startling conspiracy.
Having heard Pip Ballantine occasionally on some podcasts (notably Metamor City) I kept hearing her voice when Eliza D Braun spoke, and it brought a smile to my mouth, however I loved Wellington Thornhill Books. He is such a great character, but then again I may be a little biased, he's such a cool archivist, though Eliza's fixing of the leak did make me squee and giggle a lot. Eliza is such a self-sufficient character. I didn't really see the scene from the cover in the book but maybe I wasn't looking hard enough, the two were cool enough without her being half-naked.
After rescuing Books from certain death Braun has broken the rules once too often and she is sent to join him in the archives where, while going stir crazy, she starts to look into the last case that left her ex-partner in a mental asylum. Along the way she finds that Books is a good man to have at her side and he finds that occasionally venturing forth from the archives isn't the worst thing he could do.
I really enjoyed the two characters and I'm now looking forward to the sequel.
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