![]() The remaining population had been forced to flee or face starvation. Ash fell in thick layers over the land, and toxic volcanic gases poisoned half the island’s inhabitants. A volcanic eruption caused Icelanders to evacuate the island a century prior, but legends about witches and trolls still inhabiting the island abound.Ī century before, in the years following an eight-month fissure eruption, the Mist Terrors decimated livestock and crops. In Riveted, Brook takes readers to another part of the Iron Seas world: Iceland. ![]() Heart of Steel was just pure fun, a wholly entertaining classic adventure tale. ( Laura’s review echoes my sentiments.) However, I was extremely impressed by the world-building, which led me to try the first steampunk novel I’ve truly enjoyed, Heart of Steel (which has one of the worst covers in the history of bad covers). I wasn’t a fan of the first book in this series, The Iron Duke. ![]() ![]() Riveted, the third installment in Meljean Brook’s Iron Seas series, has a lot of appeal on the surface, but its real richness is the layered, complex exploration of identity against the backdrop of a skillfully-developed steampunk world. ![]()
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