God Save the Queen

For me, the biggest honor I can give a book is giving it a place on my shelves. Not to knock ebooks..I have plenty of those and love being to take all the books with me when I head out. After having this series in its ebook counterpart, I'm so happy to finally have a hard copy. Why? Because I absolutely love this series/world. I love the steampunk elements. That's a genre I don't get enough of even though I do love it.

Xandra Varda is a member of the Royal Guard in a world full of humans, vampires, werewolves and goblins. Up until this point in her life everything was great. Not perfect..but great. Then something happens to her sister and everything goes tits up. She's about to find out what truths are lies. Even the ones about her. I like Xandra. I find her quite kick ass. (She fights in a corset!. It IS Victorian London after all). She had a touch for the melodramatic at times...which is a plus for me. “What have you brought us?” “Meat.” (Do let me know when you get to that part because I fooking LOVE it.)

I can't leave without talking about Vexation McLaughlin. Alpha werewolf extraordinaire. Does he have a big role in the book? No...but the book isn't about him. He can stand next to me and do nothing all bloody day. Is he delicious nonetheless? Yes ma'am. Is that all it takes for me? Apparently.

Queen Victoria is a vampire. Werewolves and vampires are the aristocrats. They are protected by the halvies. Goblins live below the streets and are to be feared. Alexandra is a halvie that hates humans and protects the elite. While looking for her sister, she finds out that halvies are being brutally experimented on. She has to uncover the truth about these experiments. She might find some truths about herself as well. I loved the alternate history of this book! The characters are great, and I really started to warm up to the goblins.