Book Review: The Girl in the Clockwork Collar

The Girl in the Clockwork Collar

by Kady Cross
Series: Steampunk Chronicles #2
Release date: 22nd May, 2012
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Pages: 416 (e-book ARC thanks to NetGalley)

Summary from Goodreads:

In New York City, 1897, life has never been more thrilling - or dangerous.

Sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne and her "straynge band of mysfits" have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper, hauled off by bounty hunters. But Jasper is in the clutches of a devious former friend demanding a trade-the dangerous device Jasper stole from him...for the life of the girl Jasper loves.

One false move from Jasper and the strange clockwork collar around Mei's neck tightens. And tightens.

Book Review: The Girl in the Steel Corset

The Girl in the Steel Corset

by Kady Cross
Series: Steampunk Chronicles, #1
Release date: 24th May, 2011
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Pages: 473 (hardcover copy bought by me)

Summary from Goodreads:

In 1897 England, sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne has no one - except the thing inside her...

When a young lord tries to take advantage of Finley, she fights back. And wins. But not all Victorian girls have a darker side that makes them capable of knocking out a full-grown man with a single punch...

Only Griffin King sees the magical darkness inside her that makes Finley special - makes her one of them. The orphaned duke takes her in from the gaslit streets against the wishes of his band of misfits: Emily, who has her own special abilities; Sam, who is part robot; and Jasper, an American cowboy with a shadowy secret.

Griffin’s investigating a criminal called The Machinist - the mastermind behind several recent crimes by automatons. Finley thinks she can help - and finally be a part of something.