If the Wild Wild West had been written by Mark Twain with the assistance of Jules Verne and Bram Stoker, it still couldn't be as fabulous and fantastical as Boneshaker. Mike Mignola, bestselling author of Hellboy If Jules Verne and George Romero got together to rewrite American history it might go something like this. There was a grittiness to the characters that I found refreshing. I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked this book up, but I thoroughly enjoyed the setting and who Cherie Priest created here world. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.īut on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Cherie Priest's long-awaited steampunk debut, Boneshaker, opens in the early days of the Civil War when rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest.

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest