Star Compass

This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books. I thought that this story was very well done. I haven't read a lot of steampunk but I decided to give this book a try since I am always looking for something new. I found the story to be very entertaining and I am happy that I decided to......more

A steampunk novel about an orphan destined for the stars. Diana Smythe was born into the nobility but an accident took her family and her inheritance and she became a pickpocket living in the gutter. She was a gutter rat known as diver, the highly talented, quick fingered pickpocket down at the dock......more

This is the first book in this series, although there are a couple of short stories that are prequels to this novel, and do a lot of the world-building. I haven't read them (yet), but Sharp does enough filling in of the backstory so that I had no trouble following the story. This is a YA steampunk ad......more

*I received a review copy of this book from the author but all thoughts and opinions are my own* I liked this book! It’s definitely a fast read, but despite that I thought the characters were all developed well enough for me to invest in their stories. It did take me a few pages to realize that the......more