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Em and Rosi decided to make a book blog. This is what happened.

 

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How many tropes can we throw in, or my review of The Girl in the Steel Corset

The Girl in the Steel Corset - Kady Cross

There are often books that play on stereotypes. Some of them do so cleverly, exaggerating the stereotype into comedy or twisting it into a subtler or subverted rendition. I was really hoping that this book would be something like that when I picked it up. Unfortunately, it was exactly as the author described it: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets X-Men. There was no nuance, no subtlety, just a blast of steampunk that felt like a SyFy channel special.

 

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