Steampunk Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files with a dash of romantic tension and a large dose of adventure. When Nikola Tesla is murdered and blueprints for his super weapons are stolen, Tweed and Nightingale are drawn into a global cat and mouse chase with his killers. What's more, it seems that the people who shot Nikola Tesla are the same people responsible for Octavia's mother's disappearance. As the two cases intertwine, Tweed and Nightingale's investigations lead them to a murdered archeologist and a secret society called The Hermetic Order of Osiris. Fleeing the cult's wrath, they go undercover on the luxury airship, The Albion, setting out on her maiden voyage to Tutankhamen's View, a five star hotel built in the hollowed-out and refurbished Great Pyramid of Giza. In Egypt, the duo begin to unravel the terrible truth behind Tesla's death, a secret so earth-shattering that if revealed it would mean rewriting the entire history of the world. But if the cult's plans aren't stopped, Britain may lose the future. From the Hardcover edition.
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September 1, 2013
A pair of teen detectives bops between London and Cairo in a steampunk adventure that would probably make a better movie than it does a book. Octavia Nightingale and Sebastian Tweed return in this sequel to The Lazarus Machine (2012), solving mysteries in a Victorian London jam-packed with automatons powered by human souls and carriages running on Tesla turbines. Their search for Octavia's kidnapped mother entangles them in a larger mystery, with missing scientists and Egyptophile cultists around every corner. Each solved puzzle reveals a further complication: traitors, lizard people, rocket launchers--even a secret world. Perhaps the number of threads is too many to keep under control; some characters are dropped abruptly, while one major arc comes to a character-building ending without ever developing through a beginning or middle. The overall mystery is impenetrable, but the set dressing of "vacuum tubes and wiring...tools and gears, clocks, glass beakers filled with strange liquids, and disassembled automatons" makes the right backdrop for a novel that climaxes with an airship-vs.-ornithopter dogfight over London. Purists take note: Among the myriad errors and inconsistencies are copious anachronisms detracting from the Victorian feel. Busy, but at least there's a death ray. (Steampunk. 15-17)COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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January 1, 2014
Gr 8 Up-Set in an alternative Victorian London, this sequel to The Lazarus Machine (PYR, 2012) continues the adventures of odd-couple Sebastian Tweed and Octavia Nightingale. The teens both have missing parents and are being raised by the state and trained as spies. Tweed is also coming to terms with his discovery that he is actually a simulacrum of the great Sherlock Holmes, whose soul was put into his body as a baby. Humorous banter and lively action scenes keep the story entertaining as the heroes journey to Egypt (on a luxury airship, no less) to try to solve the murder of Nikola Tesla and prevent a war. There are a lot of thrills, a hint of romance, and a mystery. Purchase this one where the first book is popular or where there is heavy demand for creative steampunk.-Eliza Langhans, Hatfield Public Library, MA
Copyright 2014 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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January 1, 2014
The crisp dialogue between Tweed and Nightingale (The Lazarus Machine), romantically entangled teenage secret Ministry agents, is this second volume's stand-out feature. A tangled mystery springing from Nikola Tesla's murder is set in a steampunk world filled with airships, deathrays, an unknown race dwelling below the earth, and plenty of action, albeit of the interesting rather than plausible sort.(Copyright 2014 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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