An entertaining start to a gentle, genre-crossing series of steampunk fantasy adventure romance novels. Finley is a sharp and not always heroic heroine, and I loved her new best friend, the brilliant inventor Emily. Finley's relationships with the group, as well as with crime lord Jack Dandy, were entertaining and fairly believable - while the adventure plot was really completely unbelievable, but in an exciting and thoroughly compelling manner. Fun, light reading.