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  • Devices Brightly Shining: A Steampunk Christmas Novella

  • Magnificent Devices, Book 9
  • By: Shelley Adina
  • Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
  • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (121 ratings)

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Devices Brightly Shining: A Steampunk Christmas Novella

By: Shelley Adina
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
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Publisher's summary

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me
Dreadful 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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It ends as soon as…

It ends as soon as something begins to happen. It seemed like more of a teaser to get you to read the other books than a novella of its own. I was sadly disappointed.

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The brevity of the book annoys me. I am not used to such a short book from this author and I wanted more.

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Great story

This story is filled with emotion and bold characters who are unapologetic in their beliefs and relentless in their pursuit of liberty. The abundant life breathed into these characters and the authentic attention to historical details all came together to create a vibrant story that is sure to stick with you long after you’ve read the last words on the page. Fiona Hardingham does an amazing job portraying the characters, bringing them to life and humanizing them with their emotions, attitude and personality.

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