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Mechanics of Life
Mechanics of Life
E. G. Gaddess

Quillian Watson is approaching the age of freedom and autonomy. But before she can celebrate, she and Dr. M--the human ­mechanist with whom she's apprenticing-­lose a child patient brought in for a mechanical arm. While the aftermath leaves her tools bloody, it tarnishes more than the brass-clad operating room.

One misspoken word corrodes what's left of Quillian's idealistic world, and she begins to doubt who she knows to be good. A visit from a high-ranking Madam--the woman who placed Quillian in her apprenticeship--­introduces her to the curious Grayson Holmes and his multitude of questions.

Missing prostitutes.

Stolen limbs.

And what do all these surgeries have to do with it?

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Book Details

Genre: 

  • Juvenile Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
Mechanics of Life review by 4332
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4332
Steampunk meets Sherlock in this delightful novel set in London. When Quillian Watson, apprentice to Dr. M, nears the achievement of her dreams to be a surgeon, the winds change. When a boy needing a mechanical arm dies on their operating table, it heralds the first of many clues that not everything is as it seems: prostitutes disappearing, shadows from her past, and a dashing Greyson Holmes enter her previously peaceful life.
Rating:
5
Five Star Award
Content Rating:

Content rating - some mature content
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