The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason

The Clockwork Scarab
(Stoker & Holmes #1)
by Colleen Gleason

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Published: 2013
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Steampunk, YA
Hardback: 356 pages
Rating: 5

Stoker & Holmes series:
The Clockwork Scarab
The Spiritglass Charade

Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood, so to speak. And when two young society girls disappear—one dead, one missing—there's no one more qualified to investigate.

Now fierce Evaline and logical Mina must resolve their rivalry, navigate the advances of not just one but three mysterious gentlemen, and solve a murder with only one clue: a strange Egyptian scarab.

The pressure is on and the stakes are high—if Stoker and Holmes don't figure out why London's finest sixteen-year-old women are in danger, they'll become the next victims.

My two-bits:

This was a fun one with Victorian fashion and etiquette along with steampunk gadgets to make this world colorful. As the title suggests, there are also Egyptian history and references.

Loved how the main characters, Miss Stoker (feisty) and Miss Holmes (geeky), team up and get to know each other in their first mystery solving adventure.

Each young lady meet romantic interests that suit them well and create just enough romance, flirting and humor that keeps us wondering and hoping they hook up.

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* added this to my Bookish Bingo challenge - square: Super Powers

* part of my Steampunk Reading challenge

Bookish Bingo Challenge: Winter

Bookish Bingo Challenge
Winter: January to March 2015
hosted by Great Imaginations (details)
Decided to join this bingo challenge again - third one.

It feels so satisfying being able to check off a square after completing a book.

The Rules:

Sign-ups close on January 15 here

Read read read!

-You may include one DNF.
-Remember, one square per book.
-Books do not have to be reviewed

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Books read:

Square - Pink Cover
The Vagabond Vicar by Charlotte Brentwood -my review

Square - Middle Grade
A Sudden Light by Garth Stein -my review

Square - Pink Cover
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty -my review

Square - LGBT QIA
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley -my review

Square - Romance
Granted Wishes by Tanya Vought -my review

Square - White Cover
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby -my review

Square - Over 400 pages
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber -my review

Square - 2015 Debut
The Secret of Pembrooke Park by Julie Klassen -my review

Square - 2014 Release I Missed
The Glass Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg -my review

Square - Pretty Dress Cover
New Uses for Old Boyfriends by Beth Kendrick -my review

Square - Blue Cover
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr -my review

Square - Super Powers
Miss Stoker - vampire hunter
The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason -my review

Square - Epistolary
The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock -my review

Square - Graphic Novel
Kill My Mother by Jules Feiffer -dnf

Square - Based on Mythology
Touch by Natalia Jaster -my review

Square - Fairy Tale Re-telling
Never by Shay Lynam -my review

Square - Start a Series
Tortured Souls (The Orion Circle #1) by Kimber Leigh Wheaton -my review

Square - Mental Illness
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven -my review

Square - Magical Realism
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami -my review

Square - Mystery or Thriller
Descent: A Novel by Tim Johnston -my review

Square - Gold Lettering
What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey -my review

Square - PoC MC
The Borzoi Killings by Paul Batista -my review

Square - Male POV
Soul Meaning by A.D. Starling -my review

Clocks, Cogs and Mechanisms Reading Challenge 2015

Clocks, Cogs and Mechanisms
Reading Challenge 2015
January 1 – December 31, 2015
Sign up ends September 30
hosted by Writing Our Fairy Tale -details
The premise:

Read books from the steampunk genre.

What do I let count as steampunk?
You can count books like “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells and other books that are considered precursors to steampunk, I have no problem with you counting graphic novels like Full Metal Alchemist.

They do not have to be on a paper to count, your ebooks count as well.
You can also count these books towards other challenges.

Brass Gears: Read 1-3 steampunk books
Flight goggles: 4-6 books
Button-up boots: 7-12 books
Clockwork Corset: 13+ books

My goal:

I plan on getting to Button-up boots: 7-12 books by year end.

My reading list: so far...
My review links will light up once review is posted.

The Clockwork Scarab
(Stoker & Holmes #1)
by Colleen Gleason
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

The Spiritglass Charade
(Stoker & Holmes #2)
by Colleen Gleason
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Waistcoats & Weaponry
(Finishing School book 3)
by Gail Carrier
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

The Curious Case Of The Clockwork Menace
(London Steampunk) novella
by Bec McMaster
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Steampunk Darcy
by Monica Fairview
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Steel Lily
The Periodic series
by Megan Curd
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

A World of InTemperance
by Ichabod Temperance
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

The Silver Sickle
by Ellie Ann
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Boneshaker
by Cherie Priest
Amazon | Goodreads | my review
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* image source for badge: Steampunk: The Art of Victorian Futurism

Stacking the Shelves - 10.4.14

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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Bought:

Horrorstor: A Novel
by Grady Hendrix
-horror, art, unique
Amazon | Goodreads
-----> I have an ebook review copy, but decided to buy the print version for best reading experience.

The Clockwork Scarab
(Stoker & Holmes #1)
by Colleen Gleason
-mystery, steampunk
Amazon | Goodreads
FREE for kindle:

This Night So Dark
-short story that connects the first two novels in the Starbound trilogy,
These Broken Stars and This Shattered World
by Meagan Spooner and Amie Kaufman
Amazon | Goodreads
-----> GET yours: this is a pre-order and will be available Oct 7, 2014

FREE ebook:

Sacrifice
-gangs, thriller
by Coral Russell
Amazon | Goodreads
-----> GET yours: from BookBunnyPR, available until Oct 10, 2014

For Review:

Drowning
by by Jassy de Jong
-erotica, south africa
courtesy of publisher
Thanks Stephanie!
Amazon | Goodreads

The Spiritglass Charade
(Stoker & Holmes #2)
by Colleen Gleason
-mystery, steampunk
courtesy of publisher
Thanks Lara!
Amazon | Goodreads
Library:

A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
(All Souls Trilogy)
by Deborah Harkness
-vampires, witches
Amazon | Goodreads
Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.

-----> listening to the audio version

Dreaming about getting soon:

To All the Boys I've Loved Before
by Jenny Han
-romance, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control in this heartfelt novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series.

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once?

Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related

True Blood
dvd tv seasons 5 and 6
-----> Netflix binge-ing and enjoying the last two seasons of True Blood which are based on the vampire books series by Charlaine Harris -- still have to catchup on reading these.

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* some of these may be offered as giveaways within the next two months

* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently

* per usual, check out the sidebar for my current giveaways offers

August Thrills-n-Chills: Vampires

Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person. -per wikipedia

With vampire stories it comes down to either bites or fights.

IF you were a character in this popular genre, who would you be?

VAMPIRE...
Tears of a Vampire Prince
The First Krystine
by Christine Schulze

OR vampire SLAYER...
Victoria Gardella:
Vampire Slayer
(The Gardella Vampire Chronicles)
by Colleen Gleason
kindle edition is currently free
get yours

--~ eBook Giveaway courtesy of author ~--
Win an ebook of Tears of a Vampire Prince by Christine Schulze

Open to all.

Offer ends: August 31, 2011

TO DO:
Tell me if your character would be a Vampire or Slayer in a paranormal story?

AND, leave your email (if I don't already have it)

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Contest has ended - winner is here

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*image source artwork by Lori Earley - btw prints of her works are available

~!~ August Thrills-n-Chills schedule ~!~