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Update: Since it's been so long, I don't think I can do a full proper review but do I have a couple of notes.
↝Found the begining very confusing and all over the place.
↝Took awhile to get into
↝Felt like I jumped into the second or third book of a series.
↝There is a lot going on.
↝Mirim made some disagreeable choices, and some that redeemed her as well
↝Did eventually get into and flew through the last half, though I couldn't rightly summarize or remember most of it off the top of my head now.
↝Loved the gaslamp elements with flying ships and such.
↝Unusual romance. Not instalove, not simple, and not all that bad. I was rooting for them in the end, but I do wonder, what is will all the Capt. Thorpes in fiction lately?! lol
↝my favorite part though is the Hellcat and all the kickass POC women. White women, not so much.
↝Author's note is fabulous.
Quotes:
The scandal and unwanted union she’d fled in Iran, the reasons Miriam became involved with these British aristocrats, were now a distant evil. Whereas the mortification of that phrase you people , was very much a present one.
----pg. 14
“I’ve had some experience in being taken for a lesser being. I always try to turn presumption and infernal ignorance to my advantage.”
----pg. 154