Charmain "Kit" Kittredge is surprised when deathmage Lord Lucien Dredmore asks her to help a client of his with a favor... but not as shocked as she is by the client in question. Kit reluctantly agrees to help Lady Eugenia Bestly by investigating the claim that her now-deceased husband was the monster behind the vicious Wolfman attacks. Kit soon discovers a bizarre plot as monsters meet mechanics. Will Kit uncover the perpetrator behind the Wolfmen in time to stop the plot from unfolding?
THE CLOCKWORK WOLF is the second book in Lynn Viehl's Disenchanted & Co. series but can easily be read as a standalone. While I thoroughly enjoyed the first book, Disenchanted & Co., THE CLOCKWORK WOLF incorporates both Lynn Viehl's superb steampunk world with mechanized werewolves. It would almost be impossible for THE CLOCKWORK WOLF to NOT be fabulous with the concept alone!
THE CLOCKWORK WOLF is not a romance although it does have romantic elements. Instead, it is a steampunk fantasy with monsters- really nasty monsters who have no problems with raping innocent women. Be forewarned as there are some brutal scenes but Lynn Viehl handles them spectacularly and quite tactfully. Lynn Viehl once again shows us just how limited the options for women are in her dark fantasy world- and seeing Kit rise above the limitations makes her all the more remarkable as a character.
I absolutely adore Lynn Viehl's Disenchanted & Co. series as it only gets better with this second installment, THE CLOCKWORK WOLF. I love seeing how Lynn Viehl meshes steampunk, fantasy, and magic together to craft a unique world that almost reads like an alternate history tale. THE CLOCKWORK WOLF is a phenomenal blend of genres and one I can't recommend highly enough!
As the proprietor of Disenchanted & Co. in a steampunk
version of America, Charmian βKitβ Kittredge makes her
living solving magical crimes. But when a snobbish lady begs
for help, saving her reputation might very well cost Kit her
life.
Doing a favor for deathmage Lucien Dredmore, Kit agrees to
interview a newly widowed lady as a potential client. Upon
meeting, however, she learns that the woman in question is
none other than Lady Eugenia Bestly, president of the Rumsen
Ladies Decency Societyβ someone who once led a vicious
campaign to ruin Kitβs life. Ironically Lady Bestly now
lives in fear herself, for the press is about to unmask her
husband as the savage βWolfmanβ who died while terrorizing
the city.
As monstrous rampages continue to occur, Kit soon determines
there is more than one Wolfman, and that they may themselves
be victims of evil players. While avoiding both mechanized
assassins and attempts by Dredmore and Chief Inspector Tom
Doyle to take her under their protection, Kit follows a
tangled path that leads from a prestigious gentlemenβs club
fronting a hellish secret to a vengeful native tribe and
dangerous, ancient magics.
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