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Devices Brightly Shining
The Magnificent Devices Series (Book 9)
- Author
- Shelley Adina
- Narrator
- Fiona Hardingham
- Publish Date
- 24 November 2017
- Run Time
- 2 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to meDreadful relations, high expectations,And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee.
It is the event of the season—on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the prince consort himself is expected. Captain Ian Hollys brings his fiancée, Alice Chalmers, to London to attend and to meet his family—people who cannot see past her flight boots to the woman who stands by his side as an equal.
While adjusting to life as a newlywed, seeing to her business affairs, and preparing the Mopsies to return to school in Munich, Lady Claire is settling into her new life with joy. When two young cousins of Gloria Meriwether-Astor arrive in London, the inhabitants of Carrick House are happy to welcome them. Sydney and Hugh Meriwether-Astor are completing a world tour, and the Dunsmuirs’ ball is just the thing to cap it off in splendid fashion. But Maggie learns that Sydney has his own plans for the family business—and they don’t include cutting off the supply of arms to the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias, as Gloria is determined to do.
It’s time for someone with a spine, an airship of her own, and reasons to put fields of air between herself and decisions about her future to pull up ropes and warn Gloria that betrayal is closer than she thinks.
Critics Review
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“A brave and talented author who looks at the darkness as well as the light.”
Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author, on the author
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“An immensely fun book in an immensely fun series with some excellent antisexist messages, a wonderful main character and a great sense of Victorian style.”
Fangs for the Fantasy on Magnificent Devices
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“For those who like the melding of Victorian culture with the fantasy of reality-bending science fiction, this one will be right up their alley.”
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Details
- Author
- Shelley Adina
- Narrator
- Fiona Hardingham
- Duration
- 2 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 November 2017
- ISBN
- 9781538504987
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction: steampunk
Synopsis
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to meDreadful relations, high expectations,And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee.It is the event of the season—on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the prince consort himself is expected. Captain Ian Hollys brings his fiancée, Alice Chalmers, to London to attend and to meet his family—people who cannot see past her flight boots to the woman who stands by his side as an equal.While adjusting to life as a newlywed, seeing to her business affairs, and preparing the Mopsies to return to school in Munich, Lady Claire is settling into her new life with joy. When two young cousins of Gloria Meriwether-Astor arrive in London, the inhabitants of Carrick House are happy to welcome them. Sydney and Hugh Meriwether-Astor are completing a world tour, and the Dunsmuirs’ ball is just the thing to cap it off in splendid fashion. But Maggie learns that Sydney has his own plans for the family business—and they don’t include cutting off the supply of arms to the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias, as Gloria is determined to do.It’s time for someone with a spine, an airship of her own, and reasons to put fields of air between herself and decisions about her future to pull up ropes and warn Gloria that betrayal is closer than she thinks.
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