Raven
(Chronicles of Steele #1)
by Pauline Creeden
Publication date: October 2014 28th
Genres: Fantasy, Steampunk, Young Adult
Synopsis:
This is the complete Steampunk Fantasy novel - all four parts of the serial in one volume! Also includes bonus features not found in the episodes ~
Human life has value.
The poor living in the gutter are as valuable as the rich living in a manor.
The scoundrel is no less valuable than the saint.
Because of this, every life a reaper takes must be redeemed.
Raven has lived by this first tenet since she was trained by her father to become a reaper. But since his death, she's been spending years redeeming the lives she's taken. By her count, she's even and it's time for that life to end. If she settles down and becomes a wife, she might just feel human again. But on the way to the life she thinks she wants, the baron of New Haven asks her to complete a task which she cannot ignore… Just when Raven decides to give up on her life as an assassin, she's pulled right back in.
My Review:
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Raven is a reaper; she was trained by her father when she was a young girl, it was her idea that he teach her how to be a reaper like him. Raven's job as a reaper is to kill people. For every life she takes she has to save another to balance everything out, to redeem herself for killing. After killing a lot of people some reapers just stop saving a life for every kill they make. I guess after a while their hearts just get so hard that they don't care anymore if they ever did. But Raven may be a tough lady and very good at her what she does she still has a soft heart and always saves a life for each kill even if it takes her a few years to catch up. Raven is trying to get caught on saving a life for all the kills that she has made so that she can finally stop being a reaper and settle down with someone she loves and have start a family.
Raven wanted her father to train her to be a reaper so that she could be highly alert and she could take care of herself if the need ever arose. She lost her mother when she was a small child and wanted to know how to fight like her father. She believes if her father had taught her mother how to fight she might still be alive. Raven's father was very good at what he did and he taught Raven well. Raven was a very strong and fast kicka** fighter.
As I was saying Raven was ready to give up her life as a reaper and settle down with the man she has loved for a very long time. But she got way laid on the way to his home. A small child, Darius was riding in a coach when the mechanical horse pulling it went out of control and started over a bridge and Darius was slung out and was hanging on to the coach when Raven came along and caught him just as he lost his hold on the carriage and was heading right into the water below. After she saved his life she was asked by his brother if she would take Darius to the witch in the woods. This witch was known as the wood witch. Everyone thought that Darius had a demon in him and that is why all of the mechanical horses exploded or stopped working when he was around. His brother thought that the wood witch could take the demon a way and he would be ok again.
Raven being the person she was she didn't have a choice but to take the boy to the witch hoping she could heal him. But if the witch could not heal him Darius' brother wanted her to take Darius and keep him with her and keep him safe from people that wanted him dead. After getting to know the person that Darius was and with the heart that Raven has there was no way she was going to let anyone hurt him. She would give up her life to save his. Darius and Raven was good for each other. They helped each other in more ways than I think either of them knew or maybe they did.
Chronicles of Steele: Raven is the first steampunk book that I have read. I have been wondering what a steampunk book was. I even Googled it. LOL! I wasn't sure if I would like this genre but when I saw the author was Pauline Creeden I no long cared if it was steampunk or not. All I knew was that I had to read it. I have read two other books, Sanctuary and Moonbow by Pauline Creeden and loved both of them so I had to read this one as well. So now I can say that I know what steampunk is and that I do like it very much. I loved the world that Pauline created for Raven and the other characters. I loved how she weaved in the mechanical horses and the airships into the story. Oh and I loved the sayings at the beginning of each chapter. There is a meaning in each and every one a message to learn from or live by. I can't wait to check out the next book of Chronicles of Steele. I also plan on checking out more of her work as well. I highly recommend that you check out her books if you have not done so.
About the Author:
In simple language, Pauline Creeden creates worlds that are both familiar and strange, often pulling the veil between dimensions. She becomes the main character in each of her stories, and because she has ADD, she will get bored if she pretends to be one person for too long. Pauline is a horse trainer from Virginia, but writing is her therapy.
Armored Hearts, her joint effort with author Melissa Turner Lee, has been awarded the Crowned Heart for Excellence by InDtale Magazine. It is also the 2013 Book Junkie's Choice Winner in Historical Fiction. Her debut novel, Sanctuary, won 1st Place Christian YA Title 2013 Dante Rosetti Award and 2014 Reader's Choice Gold Award for Best YA Horror Novel.
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