Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 So full disclosure: I was PMSing bad when I read Kiss of Steel and I was riding the Feels train pretty damn hard (also to the dude who stumbled here by mistake looking for a book review and got an update on my menstrual cycle-Welcome to the Bitchery. Yeah, we talk about periods but there are cookies. And orca sex reviews) so some of my thoughts on this book might be due to highly amplified emotions. But I also think McMaster is just a really good writer. 
 So this review was almost: "And she's all alone because the vampire aristocracy murdered her family-SNIFF-and her brother is sick and she doesn't eat enough because she wants her siblings to be full-SNIFF-and for being a murdering vampire criminal he's really sweet to her-SNIFF-and he bought her a pork pie and she was so hungry-SOBS" but thankfully I have my shit together now. 
 McMaster's London Steampunk series is everything I want a steampunk world-richly imagined, gritty and dark, and full of hot heroes and hot sex. Yes, the sex in this book is utterly delicious. Feel free to stop reading this now and order the book. Also, the hero is a cockney-accented, leather-clad, bad-boy vampire, so if Spike from Buffy gave you tingles? Yeah, go buy this book. 
 This steampunk world is more paranormal than clockwork, though. Normally I'm not all about the vampire/werewolf (can they EVER be friends?!?!) paranormals, but it totally worked for me here. 
 There's a lot of excellent build up and action in this book, too. It's four-hundred plus pages that breezed by due to excellent pacing. 
 - Elyse