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The Inventor's Companion (2011)

by Ariel Tachna(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1615818227 (ISBN13: 9781615818228)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

review 1: Victorian London, booming with steampunk technological, constrained by a caste system. Lucio is trapped as a companion, but he dreamed of anything else until he meets a young inventor for dinner. Gabriel, who's assistants bought him Lucio's time for a gift, is a firm believer in the equality movement. No matter how delicious Lucio looks, he can't allow himself to take advantage of Lucio's services. Unable to get the other out of their minds, they meet once again at a ball. But how can they be together? Gabriel can hardly afford a few hours time with Lucio, even if could let himself. Lucio is not allowed to be with anyone who don't pay his handlers.Overall, I liked this book. It was sweet with an interesting concept. And it's a good length! However, I didn't like two things... more. You could make a drinking game every time Gabriel says that no one will treat Lucio like Gabriel would. How do you know, Gabriel, how do you know? The second was that while the story was very sweet, like a cupcake, it didn't do well with the conflict. Tachna could have taken the conflict further, made it darker, made the task almost insurmountable. For example, it seemed so easy for Gabriel to earn the money with new inventions. His inventions never had any setbacks. Because each problem was so easily solved, the author needed to invent another and then another problem to get in their way. The conflict seemed to just be tacked on, rather than designed into an arc. But if you're looking for a very sweet story between two lovers, you'll like this one.
review 2: Terrible.The two main characters make me feel like I'm reading about two women instead of men, with the amount of lovesick sighing around. To believe that they're in love at all requires a suspension of disbelief in itself. They fell in love at first sight, practically at chapter one, and have absolutely no reason to do so. Lucio at least have a weak excuse to be in love. Nobody's ever treated him like a human being before except Gabriel. Gabriel's excuse is that Lucio is hot and likes his machines. I like dogs, but I don't fall in love with every breeder and dog enthusiast. The steampunk is gratuitous at its best. It did nothing for the book - it feels like an excuse to have slaves in a somewhat civilized setting, and that's about it. It could have been Regency era, and Gabriel could be making carriage wheels with no discernible differences. Seeing as they're already in love right from the start, the whole book is basically one cog after another in between them and happily ever after. In a genre where happily ever afters are pretty much a given, the book does nothing to make you want to know what happens at all. A lot of stuff that happened are typical of romance novel. Some books manage to make the angst and clichés work. This book didn't.I stopped reading seriously after two hundred pages and skimmed through the rest for the plot. I always try to finish the books I read - to get my money's worth and to be fair - but this is just too awful to continue. Reads like whiney Romeo and Juliet or a Teen Angst novel. less

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