And so the adventure proper begins, along with a blossoming romance between Zenobia and Ariq. Ariq accommodates them all in his settlement, Krakentown, but Zenobia’s friend has a very pressing reason to reach her husband in the shortest time possible, and this urgency is misinterpreted by Ariq as evidence that Zenobia is either a rather incompetent spy or a courier for a more competent one. Zenobia, her friend, and her two servants (bodyguards in the guise of a maid and valet) are rescued by Ariq, whom Zenobia recognises from her brother’s descriptions as the infamous rebel, the Kraken King. When Zenobia’s long-time friend invites her to be a travelling companion on a journey to rejoin her diplomat husband, Zenobia jumps at the chance, but very soon finds herself jumping out of an airship when they come under attack from piratical bad guys. Unfortunately for Zenobia, her brother is rather overprotective of her, particularly given the number of times she’s been kidnapped and held for ransom in recent years.
But first, my thoughts on the tales of the Kraken King… Geraldine, aka the novelist Zenobia Fox, longs to have adventures like those she writes about in her fiction and similar to the real-life exploits of her brother and his wife – on which many of her stories are based.
Now the verdict’s in, am I going to catch up with all the books in this fascinating world that have so far eluded me? You bet. Which meant that I was finished just in time to write my review the week before the whole lot comes out as one novel. But then life happened, and so I found myself reading all eight of the installments back-to-back. I’ve been meaning to read Meljean Brook, and especially her Iron Seas series, for far too long, so when I spotted that a new serial novel was coming out set in that universe, back at the beginning of the summer, I snapped up all the episodes, intending to read them one at a time as the author envisioned. Stempunk Romance published by Berkley 04 Nov 14 Stevie‘s review of The Kraken King (The Iron Seas, Book 4) by Meljean Brook
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