Title: The Girl with the Iron Touch The Steampunk Chronicles: Book 3 Author: Kady Cross Publisher: Harlequin, Harlequin Teen Genre: Steampunk The Girl With the Iron Touch delivers the same kind of good YA steampunk read as the previous two books in this series by Cady Cross. We have the same team, Emily, Sam, Griffin, Finley and Jasper, though Jasper is very much on the sidelines, taking off on his own intrigue with Wildcat for much of the book. Jack Dandy plays a pivotal role and we get to see a little of the real man for a moment when his cockney mask slips at one point. By the time we get to the finale, they also have a new member on the team, Mia, a girl who began life as a machine, but organites using flesh from no other than 'the team', turned her into a human. Mia was created by Garabaldi, the mad mastermind behind their troubles in book one - I don't remember if he had anything to do with the events on book two or not. Garabaldi should be dead - Griffin did bring a … [Read more...]