Title: The Girl in the Clockwork Collar SubTitle: Book 2 in the The Steampunk Chronicles series  Author: Kady Cross Publisher: HarlequinTEEN Pub Date: May 29, 2012 Category: Young adult steampunk The Girl in the Steel Corset was an excellent novel and this, the sequel is quite possibly even better. It certainly has all the wonderful characters and great action of the first and it’s not too heavy, depressing and relentless like a lot of the young adult books coming out these days. Thank you, Harlequin Teen. The Girl in the Clockwork Collar is set in an alternate version of Queen Victoria’s era where steam power and mechanics became the pervading technology, not electricity. Steampunk is the name of this genre which could also be thought of as science fiction as people in the Victorian era might have imagined it. The beauty of this genre for modern readers is that it brings together the best of that era without the worst of it. Women wear Victorian era clothes with the addition of … [Read more...]