Let’s see…how in the world do I write a review that’ll do this book justice? I find this to be a regular conundrum when I’ve read a book that so completely blows me away. Ratings are 1 to 5 stars and based mostly on GoodReads standards.Ĭlick for more information regarding ratings. Some passages may prove unsettling to unmarried gentlemen of a sensitive disposition. This volume (available in print, and for the first time on mechanical book-reading devices) contains the complete original text of Piccadilly’s memoirs as first serialised in All the Year Round. Swoon Again! At the tormented clergyman, Ruben Crowe. Swoon! At the dashing skycaptain, Byron Kae. Disapprove Strongly! Of the utter moral iniquity of the dastardly crime prince, Milord. Marvel! At the aerial escapades of the aethership, Shadowless.īeware! The licentious and unchristian example set by the opium-addled navigatress, Miss Grey.
Gasp! As the miracles of clockwork engineering allow a dead man to wreak his vengeance upon the living. Thrill! As our hero battles dreadful kraken above Prosperity. Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about to cheat the wrong man. A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies!
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