The Brass Giant, by Brooke Johnson

I was sent a complimentary copy of this book in order to facilitate my review. All opinions and results are my own.

Title: The Brass Giant

Author: Brooke Johnson

Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse

Genre: Steampunk

Format: Kindle

Sometimes, even the most unlikely person can change the world

Seventeen-year-old Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible dream for a lowly shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up, tinkering with any machine she can get her hands on, in between working and babysitting her foster siblings.

When Emmerich Goss–handsome, privileged, and newly recruited into the Guild–needs help designing a new clockwork system for a top-secret automaton, it seems Petra has finally found the opportunity she’s been waiting for. But if her involvement on the project is discovered, Emmerich will be marked for treason, and a far more dire fate would await Petra.

Working together in secret, they build the clockwork giant, but as the deadline for its completion nears, Petra discovers a sinister conspiracy from within the Guild council … and their automaton is just the beginning.

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Brooke is a stay-at-home mom, amateur seamstress, RPG enthusiast, and art hobbyist, in addition to all that book writing. As the jack-of-all-trades bard of the family, she adventures through life with her fiercely-bearded paladin of a husband, their daughter the sticky-fingered rogue, and their cowardly wizard of a dog, with only a sleep spell in his spellbook.

They currently reside in Northwest Arkansas, but once they earn enough loot and experience, they’ll build a proper castle somewhere and defend against all manner of dragons and goblins, and whatever else dares take them on.

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My Review: I love science fiction and fantasy stories, but this was the first Steam Punk story I have read. I loved it. The author, Brooke Johnson, created interesting and complex characters and just enough information about engineers, gears and mechanics to keep my attention without creating a divide between me and the main character, Petra. I loved following the plucky Petra and cheered her on along the way. You will want to dive right into this story because not all the characters are what you expect and world that Johnson created will suck you right in.

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EXCERPT

A machine is more than its function, more than the parts that shape it.

The gears, pinions, and springs, they make the machine tick, but deeper

than that—beyond the spindles and bearings, beyond the weights and

levers—a machine is truth.

 —Lady Chroniker

Chapter One


Petra Wade stood at the foot of the University steps, her hands in the pockets of her borrowed trousers.Her heart hammered in her chest as she looked upon the gleaming monument of scientific study, the anticipation of this moment finally a reality. She nervously twisted the stem of her pocket watch, feeling the familiar click of the ratchet against the winding gear.