Brilliant in every way, except one rather large hole: there were two women amongst a cast of hundreds of men. One served only to provide transport, the other was the villain, and not even the main villain! Something felt wrong and once I noticed it was the lack of females in the story, I realised...
A wild ride through a warped Victorian England, so,warped that the attempted assassination of the queen is successful, leading us to an Albertian world. There is a wonderful mixing of fact and fiction, with real characters having their history tweeked slightly or massively, depending on how far...
All in all a fun and very entertaining book. For sure, it's a bit too long at times, some dialogues are quite simple and annoying (especially towards the end, where they seem rushed) and, the bizarre devices and organic-machines that are some characters are well over the top if not ridiculous! Bu...