Full review can also be found on: Paein and Ms4Tune's Book Blog 
 Well, I do think the reason I put the book down for so long was because it was perhaps a little too much steampunk london in one go. I slipped right back in again however when I picked it up again and now I want more! May he just pre-ordered the first of Prudence's series. As always you are still left with questions, but as the world is continuing on in another series I can't complain too much. I'm also not sure how many of my questions are down to archaeological interest too. The burning one I find, is to do with Floote's timing. How?! 
 I believe my favourite has to be Biffy. The poor guy has had a rough time of it and from the way things were going, it's not going to get much better, but he's had some personal training now and he's got something to work towards and it's all done him some good. I'm glad he's so much better now, he wasn't dealing too well and he seems to have found himself again. I hope we see him and his story's - not exactly conclusion, but if you read this book you'll get what I mean - in the Prudence books. And while he threatened a certain despicable young woman, we didnt see this come about. What did the Lord and Lady think of it all? 
 I think that, having recently seen a video about the Pharaoh Hatshepsut and there for knowing who she was before she cropped up in this book actually helped too, if I hadn't have known I may have been less interested possibly but certainly I wouldn't have understood what wasn't explained in the book. For those of you who don't know, she was the head wife when the previous Pharaoh died and started as a Regent for her stepson but was later made a full Pharaoh, not a Queen. This upset a few people and roughly 20 years after her death someone tried to erase her from history. Her statues were smashed and her name chiselled off things. Of course, her tomb still exists, but the wall paintings in there were painted under her direction... 
 But back to the book at hand. A nice round up, even if it doesn't feel like a round up at all. (For example, what was that past society about in Italy which she discovered when she went to investigate the Templers?!) As always, an extra chapter would have been nice to tie everything up neatly. I like neat bows.