The Osiris Curse (A Tweed and Nightingale Adventure #2) by Paul Crilley

This second tale in the Tweed and Nightingale Adventures  does not disappoint.  Sebastien is questioning his identity after a startling revelation in the climax of the previous book (The Lazarus Machine), and Octavia is annoyed to find herself regarding her counterpart in a disturbing new light.  Sherlock Holmes, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells are all drawn into Crilley’s fantastic steampunk London along with a world of incredible inventions, bloody skirmishes and some surprisingly thoughtful questions about the value of human life which most teenagers, thankfully, do not personally have to face.

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The Lazarus Machine (A Tweed and Nightingale adventure) by Paul Crilley

Sebastian Tweed is racing against time to save his father and prevent Moriarty from perfecting a ghastly new invention in his attempt to achieve a kind of immortality and throw the world into chaos.  But Sebastian has an even bigger challenge awaiting him in the form of his new accomplice Octavia Nightingale.  In his seventeen years he has learned nothing about intelligent, ambitious young women who refuse to sit at home and embroider cushions.  He hardly knows any women at all.  Octavia, on the other hand, is only too happy to educate him as to the differences!   All the steampunk action takes place in a parallel London, 1895.

Philippa @ Balwyn Library.

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