Steamborn is now live on Amazon and iBooks!
Check out this spoiler-free review from The Arched Doorway. It’s pretty amazing when someone enjoys your work, and this review put my jaw on the floor in the best possible way.
The first book in a new steampunk trilogy by Eric R. Asher, Steamborn was an exciting and fast-paced read, and I honestly can’t remember the last time I had that much fun reading a book. With the release of Jack Campbell and Jim Butchers new steampunk books this year I didn’t think anything else would really meet the bar they set, but Steamborn is as good as, if not better than either of them. I can’t count the number of times I found myself on my feet pacing around my room — which is something I do when I am really amped up by the book I am reading.
Most books I’ve read with war torn or post apocalyptic worlds are much too dark and depressing for my liking, but I found Steamborn to be a much more hopeful story. I was also really happy to discover that the technical aspects of the book weren’t too difficult to follow as well. I’m not a very mechanically minded person so I can struggle at times when a story gets too much into the details of the machines, but this book kept things simple without dumbing it down at all.
My favorite part of the book however were the characters, the relationships Jacob had with his mentor Charles, and his friend Alice really made the story for me. I had to restrain myself from rushing through the story and missing things to find out just how everything turned out between them all.
I already can’t wait for the next book in the series, and I can’t describe the excitement I felt when I found out the next two books both come out in 2016. I’ll be counting down the days until I can find out what is going to happen to Jacob and his friends next.
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