Name: Clockwork Fairies
ISBN: 9781429927567

Cat Rambo

Desiree feels the most at home with her clockwork creations, but Claude worries about all this science and Darwinist nonsense—after all, where do clockwork fairies fall in the Great Chain of Being? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tor.Com Original

Clockwork Fairies

Maggie Gordon

Clockwork Fairies features a most unlikable protagonist, and it's a fantastic steampunk read! A dean of Oxford is looking for a wife, and he believes he finds a suitable mate in Desiree, a woman of colour that British society rejects because of the colour of her skin. Desiree is also an impressive engineer, making a variety of creatures from gears and metal. The dean, however, thinks that he must tame her, but loses her when confronted with a better adversary. 

It's hard to write protagonists who are so thoroughly terrible in such a readable manner, but Cat Rambo gives us a very well crafted character who is a gigantic prat. The world he lives in is full of wonders, even if he can't see them. Desiree sounds like someone I would love to meet, and I'm glad she escapes him in the end (though not sure her new friend isn't going to present the poor women with a host of other problems!).

Clockwork Fairies A Tor.Com Original