Name: The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter
ISBN: 9780857665300

Rod Duncan

Elizabeth Barnabus, who leads a double life as herself and her detective brother, sets out to locate a missing aristocrat but runs into trouble with the Patent Office, which is intent on keeping new technologies from being introduced into society.

The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter

Angry Robot Presents: The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter A riotous novel of alternate history set in a divided England. The land is divided, following the Luddite revolution, into the puritan, progress-hating north and the decadent, Royalist south. Living right on the border and flitting between the two nations Elizabeth Barnabus lives a precarious double life – as both herself and posing as her own brother, the daring private detective. Now she is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks, and self-proclaimed inventors of a travelling alchemical circus. But when she Elizabeth up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better... File Under: Fantasy [ Miss Taken Identity | A Country Divided | Class War | Patent Pending

Suyash Goylit

Not my cup of tea
 
The ending part took longer than the beginning which is very unusual. I just couldn't get through it and wanted it to end as quickly as possible. The only time I felt anything in the latter half, was when it seemed like Elizabeth was gonna be taken to the Duke.

Finalist for the 2014 Phillip K. Dick Award Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life - as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus. But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better... File Under: Fantasy

Lynette Pedersen

The story was interesting, and I definitely liked the protagonist and hope she's around in the next one. However, I have to admit that the pervasive typographical errors in the book were incredibly distracting. This is obviously not a comment on the story itself, but if Angry Robot (the publisher) expects to be taken seriously in the industry they really need to step up their editing game.

The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter

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