Rating: 4.5 🌈
The Tank, third novel in Cari Z’s terrific steampunk romance adventure series is perhaps the best conceptualized, best written of the three stories so far.
It brings her characters great emotional growth, allowing for betrayals, thought provoking moments of ambivalence of the nature of the work that a Master of Thaumaturge finds himself and his associates engaged in for the services of war. And the cost to relationships of all kinds.
The histories of the war, the Enemies, and even main characters are filled in and given fuller dimension.
The series and the growing relationship between Anton Seiber and Imperial Investigator Camille Lumière becomes deeply layered within the restrictions of their service and the growing demands of an enlarging war.
I was absolutely engaged by the drama and poignant moments of the storylines here. The war that overtakes the needs and loyalties of many.
There’s another book to come. I can’t wait to read it .
I highly recommend this story and series but start with The Train and read through as they were written.
The Spell Saga series:
✓ The Train #1
✓ The Tower #2
✓ The Tank #3
â—¦ The Trials #4 – Nov 8, 2022
Description:
All Anton Seiber, newly-minted Master Thaumaturge, wants is to use his training to support himself out in the world. Well, that and to see the man he loves, Imperial Investigator Camille Lumière, more than once every six months.
What he gets instead is an invitation to visit L’Institut D’Ingénierie Technologique in Paris, the foremost research institution for thaumaturgy and the arts of war in the world. It’s an offer he can’t turn down…quite literally.
Getting to the Institute is a mess that Anton barely survives, and that’s just the beginning of his troubles. Drawn into a web of lies and betrayals, Anton will have to use every trick he can conjure to survive—and perhaps hand over the most diabolical spell in the world in exchange for saving the life of someone he loves.
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Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 