Please hold your brick throwing, booing and hissing for after this review please. 
 I know I'm in the minority when I say, I didn't really care for this book. No, I didn't hate the book - I just didn't like it. This whole idea of a fairy tale set in steampunk universe is AMAZING, but in this case it was so wrongly executed. 
 First, let me start off with the perdictibilty of the plot. From about page 70 I saw where this book was headed, which made reading the rest of the book a tad bit boring. I mean who wants to read something when the ending is already known? 
 Another thing that was extremely confusing to me was this who alternative universe with different countries, cultures and such. I just didn't think it was as developed as I would have liked and it at times got a bit confusing. 
 The last part was the obvious focus on this plague. About 75% of this book was about the plague, which is all fine and dandy, but when you sacrifice character development to fill a book with seemingly technical details regarding cyborgs and plagues it just loses the reader. 
 That being said, it is the authors first book. So I shall be fair and probably read the second book in this serious (Yes I like torture, but really I don't know how many times I've trashed book 1 of a series only to love book 2). So book 2.... here we come!