Full review can also be found on: Paein and Ms4Tune's Book Blog 
 So this is a re-read, a recap for book 2. I loved it just as much the second time around. I do love these characters and I will certainly need to read her other series through (so far I've only read the first). 
 Certainly this one seems to be more of a teen series next to the more YA/NA target of The Parasol Protectorate. Perhaps to capture a younger audience and thus guide them into the other series? It's certainly likely to happen. Though, the protagonist of this is but 13 whereas Alexia of Parasol Protectorate is and aged spinster of 26. 
 I've always thought that ladies were often underutilised, certainly even today no one expects a pretty young thing to be clever too and it was clearly an oversight on someone's part not to use this to their advantage throughout history (unless some ultra-clever sod DID and we simply don't know of it because they were highly successful). This book clearly agrees with me and has set this to rights, abet in faux Victorian London. 
 I can't wait to read about Sophronia's next adventures and I'm interested to see how the series tie together. I do hope it's more than just a name here and there.