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Crimson And Steam: Crimson City Series, Book 8 (2009)

by Liz Maverick(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1605488003 (ISBN13: 9781605488004)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Books in Motion

series

Crimson City

review 1: Crimson & Steam is the story of Jillian Cooper and Marius Dumont, characters from the Crimson City series. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I thought there would be more of an element of steampunk. The story contained flashback episodes of Victorian times, when steam powered inventions were all the rage and the story tied into a life or death puzzle Jill and Marius had to solve, but I didn't see much that was really steampunk related. The ending tied everything together satisfactorily, but I didn't quite buy it. This was overall an entertaining story, and I was glad that Jill and Marius got their own book. If you've read the Crimson City series, you'll want to read this book for the opportunity to visit some of Liz Maverick's characters once a... moregain.
review 2: After the long wait to see more of Jill and Marius after Shards of Crimson, I was really anticipating Crimson & Steam. But the story here is not the one that I would have wished for the pair.Human reporter Jill and vampire clan head Marius have had a deep connection that Marius has denied out of duty to his vampire race, and now in order to secure peace between the vamps and the werewolves, Marius, convinced of his noble purpose, deals Jill the ultimate rejection by committing himself to a 'state' marriage with one of the daughters of the Royale werewolf house. As Jill's heart breaks watching her soul mate wed, she is determined to move on with her life. Well the fact that that Marius' plan doesn't works so well is the ultimate understatement. Uniting the two powerful supernatural races stirs up a pro-human movement and soon Jill finds herself pulled back into Marius' life trying to solve a murder and to find a cure for a deadly virus which threatens to remove Marius from Jill's life even more permently than his marriage.Woven along side of Jill and Marius' ordeal, is a story set in Victorian times. A gentle story where the leads, Charlotte and Edward are separated by the rigid class structure of their times, a story which also holds the truth of the beginnings of the supernatural races. I actually liked this story the better of the two despite that fact that the ending is a bit wierd and sad. Charlotte and Edward's characters, relationship and chemistry are better developed and the more compelling of the two stories. And really it is only Charlotte and Edward who kept me from disliking this book entirely because I found Jill and Marius' story frustrating and unsatisfying, and Marius' treatment of his wife (which looses him all of his nobility points) quite maddening. It also didn't help that I didn't like the abrupt resolution to the Marius' problem and and the final fate of Marius' wife or the fact that my hopes for Hayden (a turned vamp with a vendetta against Marius' family and Jill's former lover) didn't pan out. But then again maybe that is reason behind the whole of fate of the wife - an impetous for Hayden's redemption in future books. Bottom line is that this is not the best entry into the Crimson City series. The earlier books of romance between the supernatural races of vampires, werewolves, demons and mechs (mechanical human hybrids) by authors Liz Marverik, Jade Lee, Patti O'Shea, Marjorie Liu and Carolyn Jewell were so much better. less

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