Was an overall okay introduction to steampunk as a genre. However, I had the notion that Richard Harland had never read more than two books about Victorian England, and that those two were both written in the 21st Century. 
 The story is about Col Porpentine, a mealy and uninspiring teenager destined to be the next leader on the Worldshaker, a giant metal ship/walker/thing. Col has always known his own superiority (obviously unfounded), but it isn't until a (female) Filthy, one of the urchins who haunt the lower decks, enters his life, that he realizes his life is a giant lie. Blah, blah, blah. Read Romeo and Juliet and then Leviathan, by Scott Westerfield, for a better version of the same story.