The Brass Giant: A Chroniker City Story, by Brooke Johnson
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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 and tinkers 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 will 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.
The Brass Giant: A Chroniker City Story, by Brooke Johnson - Amazon Sales Rank: #2575102 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-23
- Released on: 2015-06-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .88" w x 4.19" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 352 pages
The Brass Giant: A Chroniker City Story, by Brooke Johnson About the Author
Brooke Johnson is a stay-at-home mom and tea-loving writer. As the jack-of-all-trades bard of the family, she journeys through life with her husband, daughter, and dog. She currently resides in Northwest Arkansas but hopes to one day live somewhere more mountainous. Follow her on Twitter.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Not my cup of tea but good if you're looking for romance with a steampunk vibe By J. D. Estrada I really wanted to like this book. For the longest time I'd been looking to dabble into a steampunk book. I followed Brooke Johnson on social media, enjoyed her shares, and after an interview I read I definitely wanted to give her a shot.As I'd understood it, this was a steampunk book with some elements of romance.As I found out, this was a romance book with some elements of steampunk.Again, I really wanted to like this book and every time Johnson dove deep into mechanics, engineering, and elements of fiction, I was able to start to enjoy, but it didn't last long because I found myself going back to copper eyes, a dimple smile, and lots of yearning of all sorts.It's not so much that I dislike romance, it's just that my expectations were way off for what I ended up reading and that was a little frustrating. Imagine you see a trailer for a movie promising robots, fiction, and intense action and then finding yourself with the Notebook.It was a tough read for me because I held hope that some twist would surprise me up to the end, yet for me, it never happened.Am I saying that no one will enjoy this book? Not at all. I'm just saying that if romance is not your cup of tea, take heed. If you're expecting something where fiction and action take center stage, then the same.If on the other hand you enjoy fiction to have a good dose of romance, elements of engineering, and some action, then by all means, give this a shot.For me however, it wasn't my cup of tea, and that's Ok too.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Once Upon a Twilight.com Reviews By Once Upon a Twilight This was my first time going into reading anything steampunk and i really loved the details in this story. The book is set in 1881 but with amazing clockwork and very advanced technology but still a sense of being in the past. I love the mix of technology and old timey aspects to this book. Brooke takes you into the world of Chroniker City and as you read you can visualize everything and have it be such an amazing notion in your mind you wish it was real.In The Clockwork Giant you get brought into the world of Petra Wade. She is a girl but isn't allowed to be an engineer which is the dream of a lifetime for her. She has taught herself how to be a clockwork engineer with the help of her employer. The sexist views of the Guild only allow males to study at the institution and she has to find a way in. I love the way she tries to get into the guild its such a simple way but just how she tries to pull it off is adorable.When Petra meets Emmerich Goss her world gets turned upside down when he offers to pay her to help him on a top secret project that no one is supposed to know about. But he can see in her the real potential and clockwork ingenuity that he might be lacking. After they are tasked to build a clockwork giant, things go awry and Petra has some tough decisions to make and so does Emmerich.This book is amazing, and I think I've fallen in love with steampunk. It really pulls you into the past, but has semi futuristic aspects that is just amazing. It has love, mystery and amazing technology. Definitely a good read and I definitely want to read the next in the series! - Monica
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Really enjoyed it. Cannow wait for the next books! By Vicente L Ruiz I don't recall how I found "The Clockwork Giant" by Brooke Johnson. Perhaps Amazon suggested it to me, but I cannot be sure. What I do remember is that I had the Amazon page open before me and, on a whim, I decided to buy it. Afterwards I did something I often do, which is performing a search for the author, and to my surprise, Johnson was active on Google+, which I also use... and she even was keeping tabs on where her customers were from. Funny. She comes across as being so kind that I pushed the book to the top of my list right after the book I was reading then.But I digress, and I'm sorry, because I do have a tendency to do that. I've been in a steampunk frenzy over the last two or three years. I like reading every kind of book, but as of late it's almost all steampunk, and still I'm not tired of it. And my to-read list still has a lot of steampunk books on it. And many that are not steampunk.Digressing again... OK, in "The Clockwork Giant" we have a girl, Petra Wade, who lives in Chroniker City, the source of all the technological marvels of the final nineteenth century Britain. Petra lives in the poor quarter, and she is a skilled clockwork worker: she can repair and create all manners of clockwork mechanisms. Petra dreams of leading a different life, however: she would like to enter the University, become an engineer and a Guild member, and spend her life working on her loved machines. But not only is she poor, but a girl, so her dream becoming true is not exactly easy. She will meet a boy, Emmerich Goss, who is an engineer... and her life, as is usually said, will never be the same. I cannot tell more without adding spoilers, so I'll try not to."The Clockwork Giant" is thus a novel of self-discovery for Petra, as she will find herself changing completely in the course of weeks. She will manage to fulfil many of her dreams in ways unexpected to her, and she will find other, unanticipated events entering her life. In fact, the whole book revolves around Petra and her circumstances, how she changes and evolves, how she reacts to a world that is no longer safe and static. She will also discover who she is, and will start paying a price for it all.I've mentioned elsewhere that I'm a sucker for good worldbuilding. In "The Clockwork Giant" I didn't feel awed by the worldbuilding, but instead I did find it subtle. For instance, the available technology is not only steam-based, but also clockwork (which Petra favours), electrical, and there's also even combustion engines and radio waves. Rather than being simply steampunk, the novel is Victorian pan-technopunk. Moreover, Chroniker City occupies an entire island offshore from England, and it seems to hold its own mysteries, which are glinted at in the book (sorry, possible spoilers).In all, I enjoyed the book a lot. I just wanted to keep reading to see what would come next. I finished the book expecting more... and surprised myself at the end by noticing then that it was the first of a trilogy (the other Chroniker City book by Johnson available now, "Le Theatre Mechanique", is not part of the trilogy), to my shame, since I am sure I had to have read that fact before and completely forgot about it. So, on the one hand I'm happy because I'll have more Petra adventures -and after the end of the book any reader will also want to-, but at the same time I feel like I cannot wait. Which is good. Still, one word of caution: the book ends, but the story does not. There are lots of plots left dangling about, more than enough for the next two books, both of which I'm sure will also add more plots of their own. But neither Petra's story or the main story arch are resolved.In short, a satisfying read. I had a good time, and it reads fast. All of that, and (badly) paraphrasing Gandalf, my heart tells me a certain Tolly will still have a role to play before the end...
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