Heart of steel

Steampunk alternate Victorian era in a world with dirigibles, nanoagents, mechanical flesh, zombies. I think I still like the first book better. However, this one has a strong lead female character who is an experienced badass captain of an Airship. Yasmeen, captain of Lady Corsair, and Archimedes Fox, adventurer, go out on a journey to search for a treasured sketch from Leonardo da Vinci. There is also revenge but that wasn't too clear to me. Good fighting sequences with zombies, but in the end, I didn't get who/what they were fighting against really.

Fun steampunk book with a good romance. I was really taken by the first book in the series, I think the initial world building was so delightful and the story was this crazy wide-ranging adventure. This follow-on is a smaller scope story than the first and there's less of the imaginative world building given that it was mostly still set up in the earlier book, but it was still a good read.. I'll def be continuing with the series.