Ultimate Nyssa Glass: The Complete Series

De: H. L. Burke

Narrado por: Mary Ann Weathers

Available for the first time in a single volume, all five Nyssa Glass Adventures.

Nyssa Glass is a reformed cat burglar turned electrician's apprentice, settled into a life repairing videophones and radio-sets. However, when her past comes calling, she finds herself on the run for a murder she did not commit. As her quiet life goes up in sparks, she must face killer robots, menacing villains, and sarcastic computers in a race for survival.

Nyssa has her hands full just trying to stay one step ahead of the police, but she still has time for adventure, humor, and even a taste of romance.

©2016 Heidi Lyn Burke (P)2017 Heidi Lyn Burke

Classic intrigue non classic setting and heroine

The narrator was excellent she brought the characters and stories to life. I enjoyed this series it was my first steampunk genre read. I was given a free copy of this audiobook to review.

Sassy, tough Heroine and a Good Narrator

First of all, if you at all like steampunk and audiobooks, get the audiobook version of this book. The narrator does an EXCELLENT job and nails Nyssa's tone and wry sense of humor. So easy to listen and totally sucked me in!

A wonderful experience.

Steam technology is more part of the everyday world rather than the story. Victorian era fashion, with a slew of wonderfully written characters. 10/10 As a novel. 7/10 for steampunk genre.

So much to love

Steam punk victorian world, vigorous young passionate characters with strong moral fiber and villains lacking morals but still rich with their own motives. And as an unexpected cherry a strong differently abled character after the first book. The characters are all believable even the villains. I fervently wish H.L. Burke to make further adventures in this world of airships and steam cars!

An enjoyable collection of Steampunk adventures

I got this book for free. My opinions are my own.

Real Rating = 3.5*

While by no means perfect, I very much enjoyed the majority of these stories. I really liked both Nyssa & her love interest (minor spoiler for first story, so not listing name), as well as the majority of the supporting cast introduced through out the stories. And I was pulling for them to get their HEAs. My least favorite of the stories was NG and the Juliet Dilemma, since I just couldn't like Amara and Reynard. I can't really pick a favorite (I'm never good at doing that), although the last was strongly emotional.

DIVERSITY: A main character is permanently disabled (although he has a nifty steampunk wheelchair that allows him to stand for brief periods, ski down stairs, etc).

CONTENTS (for those who care): Kisses only / A few "d" words / Accounts of some past (pretty awful) murders / Some brief domestic abuse by side character / Christian elements

NARRATION: Gets the job done / Speed was good for most of it, however the computer voice is a bit slow / Distinct character voices / Sound quality is not the highest, although it wasn't anything specific for most of the book, being most noticeable if you have to turn up the volume in a noisy environment. There were some segments, however, that sounded a bit hollow / The narrator repeats the title and the chapter number for every chapter, which becomes annoying.

Great steam punk series

I was hesitant to get this series because of a couple of negative reviews, but I am glad I made the plunge. This series had me from the very first book. I was surprised how much I was drawn into liking Nyssa and Eliss. I thought these books were very well written and there was just the right amount detail and description as well as character development to allow the story to shine through. I laughed when they were happy or when they overcame problems and almost cried when they were sad, hurting or in the midst of almost insurmountable trouble.

I also like the fact that this book drew me in with hardly any swearing or any overtly sexual behavior.

I enjoyed this series as an adult, but would not mind at all reading it to my kids (when they were younger) or to my grand kids.

I cannot wait for more of my credits so I can try another of her series of books.

Wonderful job H. L. Burke. I hope you continue to write amazing stories in the style you wrote these.

Very Enjoyable Series

I received this book for free. I am voluntarily posting this review and all opinions expressed herein are my own.

This book is all the Nyssa Glass novellas, except the prequel. I liked this compilation as each stories builds off of the previous one. What I liked best is that the last book brings the story back to the beginning to bring the readers full circle to the end.

I loved Nyssa and her growth in each story. How she learned to trust and love was very touching. I absolutely loved how Ellis came into Nyssa's life and how that was brought back again in the final book of the series.

All of the books are narrated by Mary Ann Weathers. She did a wonderful job in giving each character a distinct sound and personality. Her narration made me empathize even more with Nyssa and the characters of her world.

Loved It

A quirky fun steampunk series.

Nyssa is comfortable in her new life. After finally leaving her old life of cat burglary behind, she’s not too excited to be thrust back into the world when danger comes knocking on her door.

Steampunk isn’t a genre I read often, but it’s gems like this that make me want to read more of it. Nyssa was a very inspired main character. I loved her humor and her quirky attitude. Her personality in general was easy to connect to. After learning of her backstory, it was easy to understand how she came to be in the situation she was in.

There was plenty of suspense and mystery in this story. Lots of intrigue and mystery too. Nyssa wasn’t the only character that was well-fleshed out, and I loved that each book in the series offered fun new insights to the characters, showing us new perspectives that the other books had not.

Narration was fantastic. The narrator did a good job of differentiating character voices, even the robotic ones.

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

Fantastic Series

I loved Nyssa Glass! I stumbled upon the first while scrolling through steampunk books while on vacation and spent way too much time (while I should have been enjoying the beach) reading! These books are simply irresistible. They are fun and unique and, of course, steampunk! What more is there to say than that?! This is in my top five steampunk series ever!

I received this audiobook in exchange for an honest review from the author/publisher/narrator.

A Great intro to Steampunk for me

Nyssa Glass, The Complete Series was my first entry into the world of “Steampunk”. Having said that, I think I can say that anyone who is avoiding this type of novel because it is not their normal genre is really missing out on a great adventure.
This is kind of like Science Fiction because it deals with lots of machinery and inventions that would be futuristic to us. However, all this takes place in a Steam powered society. Steam powered cars, Steam powered ships, Steam powered airships. Really an excellent contrast and a much simpler society than we have today.
These stories tell us about the adventures of Nyssa Glass in a continuous fashion that makes this collection truly one 13 hour novel that is very hard to put down.

Mary Ann Weathers does an excellent job narrating this series and the production was top notch with no issues noted.

I enjoyed and highly recommend this series and I will definitely be looking for more.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.