Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 I recently started reading steampunk, and I'm so glad I did because I found The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr. This book is part steampunk, part fantasy, part romance and part mystery, but all of it is delicious. 
 The titular character is the daughter of the famous and now deceased Henry Jekyll. Like her father, Eliza Jekyll harbors a secret shadow-self, Lizzie Hyde. Eliza is proper and straight laced, a doctor who tends to the mad at Bethlem (Bedlam) and who helps the police solve murders using forensic analysis. Every day Eliza struggles to silence Lizzie's voice inside of her, but when it's too much, she takes her elixir and transforms. 
 There is so much going on in this book that's hard for me to do it justice in a summary, to be honest. 
 I loved this book for a bevy of reasons, the first being how richly imagined Carr's world is. I'm the worst kind of fantasy reader-I demand rich world-building and an immersive experience, but I don't have the patience for a lot of info-dump or exposition. I think that's why I'm finding I like steampunk-in a lot of ways the stage is already set for me, so I'm only waiting for each individual author to deliver the nuance of her world rather than start from scratch. 
 - Elyse