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A review by cattatonically
Dawn's Early Light by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
4.0
The third installment of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences changes everything. The continuation is going to be one hell of a ride! Good thing we have a handy motorcar at the ready for the adventure.
Dawn's Early Light takes our duo across the Atlantic, on quite the adventurous tour of the United States, in order to help their American counterparts solve one hell of a convoluted mystery. Of course, Eliza is never one to pass on the action and adventure - being in the field is what suits her best.
Still the same as ever, she tends to solve her problems with bullets, and fists. I was absolutely giddy when she knocked one particular American cowboy flat on his arse in the middle of a pub (a woman after my own heart, she is). However, emotions are running high.
I recall being very excited at the end of the last book that the romantic undertones between Books and Braun were finally coming to a conclusion. Well, I was wrong. It takes a few thwarted conversations, a few misguided flirtations, and a lot of frustration before Eliza and Wellington see fit to resolve their unspoken feelings for each other. While disarming a bomb. Because when else are you supposed to confess your undying love for your partner?
As we come to our climax and conclusion, everything changes, and everything we thought we knew turns on a dime. There is, undoubtedly, a distinct feeling of being punched in the gut.
The first two books of this series, and a good portion of this third book, do a fantastic job of setting us up for what's to come. We have fully established the world, the technologies, and how everything works. We've meshed technology, science, and clockwork into the mechanics of what keeps this world going. We've met our main cast, and we know them very well (with a few mysteries left to solve, but that's all in the character development).
We are now set for what's to come - and it's going to be on hell of a hair-raising adventure. Eliza and Wellington definitely have their work cut out for them.
Dawn's Early Light takes our duo across the Atlantic, on quite the adventurous tour of the United States, in order to help their American counterparts solve one hell of a convoluted mystery. Of course, Eliza is never one to pass on the action and adventure - being in the field is what suits her best.
Still the same as ever, she tends to solve her problems with bullets, and fists. I was absolutely giddy when she knocked one particular American cowboy flat on his arse in the middle of a pub (a woman after my own heart, she is). However, emotions are running high.
I recall being very excited at the end of the last book that the romantic undertones between Books and Braun were finally coming to a conclusion. Well, I was wrong. It takes a few thwarted conversations, a few misguided flirtations, and a lot of frustration before Eliza and Wellington see fit to resolve their unspoken feelings for each other. While disarming a bomb. Because when else are you supposed to confess your undying love for your partner?
As we come to our climax and conclusion, everything changes, and everything we thought we knew turns on a dime. There is, undoubtedly, a distinct feeling of being punched in the gut.
The first two books of this series, and a good portion of this third book, do a fantastic job of setting us up for what's to come. We have fully established the world, the technologies, and how everything works. We've meshed technology, science, and clockwork into the mechanics of what keeps this world going. We've met our main cast, and we know them very well (with a few mysteries left to solve, but that's all in the character development).
We are now set for what's to come - and it's going to be on hell of a hair-raising adventure. Eliza and Wellington definitely have their work cut out for them.