By working at her grandfather’s repair shop, sorting the small gears and dusting the curio cabinet inside, Grey has tried to stay unnoticed—or as unnoticed as a tall, strong girl can in a town of diminutive, underdeveloped citizens. Then her best friend, Whit, is caught by the Chemists’ enforcers after trying to protect Grey one night, and after seeing the extent of his punishment, suddenly taking risks seems the only decision she can make.
But with the risk comes the reality that the Chemists know her family’s secret, and the Chemists soon decide to use her for their own purposes. Panicked, Grey retreats to the only safe place she knows—her grandfather’s shop. There, however, a larger secret confronts her when her touch unlocks the old curio cabinet in the corner and reveals a world where porcelain and clockwork people are real. There, she could find the key that may save Whit’s life and also end the Chemists’ dark rule forever.
Jan’s Review
Curio is an amazing steampunk novel about two different worlds. Curio city is hidden inside a curio cabinet and is inhabited by characters who are either porcelain or clock work in nature. Mercury city, based in a Colorado like you never seen before ruled by chemists, strict rules and a line of people who are thought to be gone forever called defenders. This novel is great but i feel like with the way it ended their could of been way more story told. The romance is spot on and the imagination that leaps from the pages of this world blew my mind. I so glad I picked up this title from my backlist and I hope your intrigued to pick it up to.
