Well, this was an interesting start to a series! I liked the author's writing, and I loved the fact that she did her homework in regards to the historical aspects of the story...which made it easier and more fun to create the twists and turns! With the added bits from well-known classics - 'Frankenstein' being one - 'Timepiece' was one hell of a ride!The Regency heroine - Elizabeth - got on my nerves on occasion, but she did come through at the end. I liked her friend (future beau)? William as w...

The concept: Jane Austen-style characters travel through time to keep Frankenstein’s monsters from saving the Battle of Waterloo and transforming Victorian London into a nightmare of pollution and Orwellian robots.The execution: Deft prose, careful characterization, and meticulous historical research brought the story alive from the opening pages; On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington’s position is dire. The French have inflicted massive losses on his forces and he fears with good rea...

Timepiece by Heather AlbanoAs I've protested before, Steampunk is not my genre. Nor am I a fan of history although I'm not entirely bereft of some grasp of historical events. So, when the book begins at Waterloo in the midst of battle I'm pretty sure I have a grasp of where we are and what the outcome should be. Although I must admit that as I often do before giving a review I paused at some point to recite aloud to Virginia a few items I enjoyed about the book with a brief synopsis of the book ...

Read all my reviews on http://urlphantomhive.booklikes.com I read time travel, so count me in. There's an introduction in the book about the special setting where, from our POV, people from one historical setting visit another one. Besides it is set in an alternative steampunk London where monsters and the machines that were meant to keep them in check roam around. This is a good example of how thing gradually became worse, with the solution being even worse than the problem and this for severa...

DNF.

I do not rate or review books I do not want to finish reading

This is a fun story, I'm looking forward to the sequel. Good characters and fun to see what happens when you "mess" with time. It took me longer than the other books I read because I was reading it on my Kindle and have limited time to read read, most of the books I listen to while I work. The time it took me in no way reflects how I felt about the story. I enjoyed it and felt bad I didn't have the time to devote to it that it deserved.

DNF - PG 92

Why?

Because I'm so bored and I've been working on this barely 300 page book for almost a month.

Also, I NEED the time travel explained. Either that, or toss so many complicated words at me that I don't realize it isn't being explained. This book does neither and some actually admits that they don't know how the time travel works or where the watches come from. And no one seems at all curious.

Timepiece, by Heather Albano, was an experiment for me into a sort of steampunk plus time travel experience. A little to my surprise, it was set overtly in a very recognisable version of our own world, beginning on the day of the Battle of Waterloo. As the story progressed it became clear that other fictional elements had been woven into the plot, most notably from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I suppose that I had expected something set in an invented world, or at least one in which the divergen...

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to take the worlds of novels like Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, and The Time Machine and pull them all together around the Battle of Waterloo, but this book does it. Its steampunk sensibility flows cleanly from the plot. I'm looking forward to the next book!

I really enjoyed this unusual time travel story. When faced with the possibility of defeat on the battlefield of Waterloo, Wellington calls on the 'Special Brigade', a squad of monsters who are barely controlled by their handlers, they sway the day for Wellington and the British, but the cost will only be counted 70 years in the future. On the same day as Waterloo, Elizabeth Barton and William Carrington, the one hemmed in by convention and her parent's ideas of what a 17 year old young lady in ...