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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Book Review and Giveaway: Steamrolled by Pauline Baird Jones

Go for a rolling ride in another delightful, action packed novel in the Project Enterprise Series.
  • Paperback: 454 pages
  • Publisher: L & L Dreamspell (April 11, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1603184074
  • ISBN-13: 978-1603184076
Genre:  Science Fiction Romance
My Rating 5.0 of 5.0

Book Description
Publication Date: April 11, 2011
With all of time at risk, it's a bad time to fall in love...unless it's the only time... Robert Clementyne is going on a transmogrification machine hunt. He fears finding the machine will be as difficult as pronouncing the name. How can the steam-powered device perform as advertised, and how useful can any information be, coming from a steampunk themed bowling alley/museum? It's pretty crazy, but he's been there, done that, and thinks he can handle it. And then he meets the proprietor/curator...Emily Babcock. Emily grew up in crazy, still lives in it-hey, it's her freaking zip code. So no worries when Robert and his team walk into her bowling alley. The first visitors ever to her museum. But neither of them is prepared for what happens when they open the door to the past...and the future. With a side trip through Roswell...and a face-to-face meeting with an evil genius/wannabe-who is on his way to becoming evil overlord-of-everything...


Review:
This book highlights Robert Clementyne, the brother of Doc from Girl Gone Nova. Robert had been in a mental health facility on earth until Doc pulled him out and introduced some nanites to help his brain organize all the genius that he had been unable to control and express before.  Here we get to enjoy the mental conversational additions of nanites Wynken, Blynken and Nod. :-) Robert and a team from Kikk have been sent to earth to locate the transmogrification machine (from Tangled in Time.)  The team includes characters from prior books in the series: Fyn (The Key) and Carey (Tangled in Time).

We are also introduced to new characters, Ashe and Emily.  Ashe, with her sentient nanite, Lurch (once a nanite with Doc aka Morticia, resulting in Lurch’s name), is a fairly new cadet with the Time Service, designed to keep time ‘on track.’  Ashe and Lurch return from a time trip to discover the base and time seriously out of whack. Ashe is the primary hero of the final book, Kicking Ashe.

Emily is a very unusual young woman, a persona of “modified Goth mixed with Steampunk.”  She is the isolated proprietor of the museum designed around the transmogrification machine inventor’s workshop.  As a descendant of the inventor’s sister, Emily has steadfastly taken care of the museum even though there have been no visitors... until now.

But Robert’s team isn’t the only one after the machine. Dr. Smith, on orders of his ‘master’, has been sent to find the machine too. As they battle over the machine, Ashe and Lurch have their own struggles with fluctuating time.

This is another wonderful story with lots of action, intrigue, and a really evil overlord fighting with patrols of robotic-like automatrons. The author has created an imaginative, unique world and wonderfully warm, quirky characters. Once again the dialog is fun and it is delightful how Emily starts mentally thinking of Robert as “oh my darling!” (Check his last name if you don’t get this right away.)  The plot moves around a lot - past, future and time streams in between. Although this could be read alone, I think it would be much easier to follow (and more to enjoy) if you have read the prior books.

Some quotes to enjoy:
Emily had questions, but questions led to answers. Answers were a mixed bag–a baggie better kept zipped when your family inheritance could be boiled down to one word: crazy. P 41
She twisted in his hold–though not out of it he was thankful to note–bringing her mouth into a better position for kissing. ... And then she kissed him, splattering his thoughts, rather like the anomaly had tried to splatter them, but with a much better outcome. P 370.
Thank you to the author for providing another great read!

TO ENTER THIS GIVEAWAY for the signed Review copy: 

1. I sent you to visit the author's website for the giveaway of THE KEY. So for this giveaway tell me why you think you would like to read this book and or series. :-) This is required for entry.

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(Four total entries possible.)

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* This contest will close 10 PM (Central) on March 23, 2012.
The winner will be randomly selected from all entries and announced on March 24 with 72 hours to complete the winners form.
 CymLowell

9 comments:

  1. I have never read steampunk before and I would like to. This book sounds very good. Please enter me in contest. I am a follower and email subscriber. Tore923@aol.com

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  2. Emily sounds like a character I would love to read about, she doesn't sound like the typical character. edysicecreamlover18@gmailDOTcom
    GFC Krystal Larson

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  3. Thanks for laying out the characters and the plot line so well, especially the part about what is going on in Robert's head. That's going to make getting in to this book and the series much easier.

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  4. I follow this blog through GFC and on Facebook (Carl Scott), also on Twitter (@carlrscott) and by email (carlscott(at)prodigy(dot)net(dot)mx).
    I Tweeted about the giveaway. https://twitter.com/#!/carlrscott/status/179200534618701824
    Thanks!

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  5. Martha, many thanks for another wonderful review! I somehow missed this yesterday! Cheers!

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  6. I want to read this book because I LOVE steampunk!! I haven't heard of this book before, but I'm definitely going to add it to my TBR list now :) Thanks so much for the giveaway:)

    email subscriber: jwitt33 at live dot com
    Tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/jwitt33/status/179330742852132866

    jwitt33 at live dot com

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  7. I would like to read the book to find out more about the mystery city and the danger the characters encounter.

    I follow the blog.

    Thanks for the giveaway.

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  8. I would like to read this book. It sounds good as do the other books by this author. However I have not had the chance to read any of her work yet at this time. I follow by GFC (Rachel Vessar) and by email.

    pefrw at yahoo dot com

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  9. Time travel, steampunk, romance? Why wouldn't I want to read this book?! I follow by GFC: Ashley Van Buren. Thanks for the giveaway!

    ashley.vanburen[at]gmail[dot]com

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