Going through Harry Potter withdrawal, I set out to find similar books for an older audience. This does the trick, but it was a little, er, more adult than I was expecting. As in erotica instead of just a romance. Guess I should have looked closer. It's not over bearing however, though rather up front as the first sex scene is on the second page. It was the plot that kept me interested. This book is exceedingly fast paced, and sadly exceedingly short at just over 200 pages. I breezed through it in a day, wrapped up in the little nuances of the world.

Considering that this book helped launch steampunk I had to read this book. It took me about half the book to get into the story. It moved slow, and the Victorian England prose didn't help matters. But I did appreciate that the book was written in that style and the world was really immersive. Jeter also manages to take random elements - Morlocks, time travel, Excalibur, and sewer rat - and weave them together in a way that makes perfect sense.