The Girl In the Steel Corset

By Kady Cross

The Steampunk Chronicles



The Girl: Finley Jayne outwardly seems a purely ordinary Victorian serving girl, apart from her beauty. What no one knows, however, is that she has a dark side--a split personality that enables her to knock out a man with one punch. A punch, or, in the case of the cruel, boorish son of her latest employer, a kick.

The Duke: Griffin King is the exeedingly rich, rather eccentric young Duke of Greythorne. His parents had discovered the Organites, tiny creatures able to exactly mimic the body's cellular behavior. Griffin takes Finley in after he runs her over as she is running from her employers' house after defending herself from their son. His friends protest, correctly believing her dangerous, but inncorrectly assuming her dangerous to their friend and themselves.

The Genius: Emily O'Brien is an amazingly talented inventor and mechanic, although unrecognised by the world at large. She lives in Greythorne House and in the course of the story creates a terrifing and beautiful mechanical cat, the fantastical corset mentioned in the title, and saves the lives of Sam and Griffin both.

The Mechanical Man: Sam Morgan was attacked and almost killed by an automaton gone berserk. Emily Saved him, but in the proscess replaced his heart, right arm, and parts of his shoulder and legs with metal and Organite. Sam now fears machines and sometimes almost hates Emily for what she did.

The Mechanist: A criminal mastermind who uses automatons, the Mechanist was behind the attack on Sam as well as several other crimes. He is currently carrying out a terrifying plot against Griffin and his band of strays, as well as stealing several objects relating the the Queen.

Will Griff and his friends survive the coming battles, and can Finley come to terms with her dark side before someone gets hurt or she loses her new friends? Read the book and find out.

I recently got into steampunk, and I must say I love it! Robots and airships and corsets, oh my! The Girl in the Steel Corset is a wonderful example of the genre, and the writing, plot, and characters are fantastic!  A wonderfully shadowy London is revealed within, gleaming with rivets and steel. I love this book, I really do, and am waiting eagerly and rather hyperactively for the sequel. There WILL be a sequel, I must believe, or I shall be quite put out.