betty reviewed Riveted by Meljean Brook
Review of 'Riveted' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I just want to note that, according to the text, both of the protagonists are much less pale than they are portrayed on the cover, and instead of looking Default Steampunk Bosoms, Annika is notorious for loving to wear bright colours that don't match, and whatever the frick shape of clothes she can sew, nevermind if an Elizabethan collar doesn't go with her harem pants. David is also badly disfigured on one side of his face and uses assistive prosthetics for his disability, not sassy-monocle-wearing.
This book is fun because Annika has no sense of heteronormativity because she was raised by wolves lesbians, and has to keep her secret lesbian village secret, but is kind of bad at it. David just wants to know his dead mom's secret (she was raised by lesbians too), and investigate volcanoes.
Kudos for fairly good depictions of arctic exploration, and I think Brook was …
I just want to note that, according to the text, both of the protagonists are much less pale than they are portrayed on the cover, and instead of looking Default Steampunk Bosoms, Annika is notorious for loving to wear bright colours that don't match, and whatever the frick shape of clothes she can sew, nevermind if an Elizabethan collar doesn't go with her harem pants. David is also badly disfigured on one side of his face and uses assistive prosthetics for his disability, not sassy-monocle-wearing.
This book is fun because Annika has no sense of heteronormativity because she was raised by wolves lesbians, and has to keep her secret lesbian village secret, but is kind of bad at it. David just wants to know his dead mom's secret (she was raised by lesbians too), and investigate volcanoes.
Kudos for fairly good depictions of arctic exploration, and I think Brook was traumatised by accounts of what happen to dogs in historical exploration, because she has written robo-dogs to protect any actual sled-dogs from being hurt.
Then there's the machinations of the villain who is kind of Evil Jules Verne.
