I tripped over this audiobook while I was trying to find something to listen to on a long car trip. While I love Hoopla, they do not always have what I want to listen to when I want to listen to it, so I hunt for new things. This time I hit the jackpot. I quite enjoyed this steampunk tale of medical espionage. The steampunk was not outlandish, made sense, and worked well in the storyline. Lady Amanda wants to go to medical school. She is one of the very few women, and most think she is just there to catch a husband. Then you have Dr. Thorton who is way more than just a doctor, and a professor, he is a member of the Queen’s secret service. He is a bit of an eccentric genius who has created extra sensory clockwork ears, is working on a super eye, etc. His biggest problem is his leg. When he hears of Lady Amanda’s clockwork spider designed to help fix never connections he is not only intrigued, he is flabbergasted that it was invented by a woman. Lady Amanda’s intellect and personality is going to rub off on Thorton, and maybe between the two of them, they can catch the criminals performing deadly experiments on the gyspy population.

I was not expecting much from this book or from the audiobook. But I found myself sucked into the adventure and the romance of the story. This is just the first book in a trilogy and I will be checking out the rest of the series as soon as my Hoopla account renews.
#BNFantasyChallenge #Steampunk