This is true revolutionary steampunk. Turning the typical steampunk notions of quiet, meek heroines, and dashing male brawn delightfully upon its head The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Series now carries the action across the Atlantic. Agents Books and Braun sent from Britain after a nasty series of events in the Janus Affair assist their newly formed American counterparts in deducing a series of strange disappearances off the Carolina coast. Tossed into the mix are contemporary rivals Thomas Edison, and Nikolai Tesla. Also included (and this alone deserves five stars in my opinion) is the ongoing series of strong kick-ass female characters who save the day.
The one problem with this series is that it is so compulsively readable there's quite a length of time to wait for the next one, and Dawn's Early Light is no exception.