OLDER FICTION
Bailey, Kristin

Shadow of the War Machine

(4) YA Secret Order series. After finally identifying her attempted killer in Rise of the Arcane Fire, Victorian heroine Meg leaves her steampunk schooling behind to locate her missing grandfather in Paris. While fans of the genre may delight over the myriad clockwork curiosities that Meg encounters on her journey, this action-jammed but rote series-ender mostly concentrates on wrapping up dangling story lines.

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