Steamforged

Steamborn Series, Volume 2

De: Eric Asher

Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld

There are old wounds in the forgotten places of the world, and some are soaked in blood. Jacob and his allies flee into the Deadlands after the fall of Ancora. Charles, the enigmatic smith, hopes to find answers in the desert city of Bollwerk that could prevent a war. Their enemies are many, and here Jacob will learn the cost of life in the Deadlands.

©2016 Eric Asher (P)2017 Eric R. Asher

Steambore more like it

First book took a bit to grab you and get you hooked, I guess the time between when I ended the first and started the second, that hook wore off. Do yourself a favor, if your gonna listen to the trilogy do it all at once, this never grabbed me like the first did, keep that momentum going...

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher

5 Stars for both the Author and the Narrator!

Congratulations to Eric Asher for his superb job of making this Steampunk story so engaging that even my aversion to all things buggy was overcome by Jacob and Alice and all the rest of the gang's exploits, plights, victories and heartaches!
Also, Saskia Maarveld did a fantastic job narrating! Such a smooth and flawless performance deserves a huge BRAVO!!

Growth in characters and world,readying us for war

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


I do enjoy listening to Saskia voice this story. She was the narrator from the first book as well. She does a great job at differentiating the characters by voice. But, again, I felt I had to speed up the audio. At a faster pace, I moved through the book catching all that was happening.

We learn more of the land and see outlying areas. In the first book we primarily were in Ancora and started to hear names of other places, ending at a new place. Now we start to see different lands and learn more. There is a great deal more outside of Ancora than the kids had ever expected. They had read of the places in the book they found, but to see and experience the places is all new. However, with these new places come great dangers.

This feels a story that is catching for it's atmosphere. The world that the characters live in is different and interesting with the bugs and land and mechanics. We see many of what is described in the book Jacob and Alice have read. We do get to see the Mechs. The people with mechanical body parts that are feared. Though I do think the story is slower paced with all we see in the world.

For me, the beginning of the story is rather slow with all the world details we are given. I wanted to get to the important stuff. It felt that all we lived through was secondary items that are in life.

Every world has some sort of prejudice, whether it's poverty level or skin tone or even body parts of metal. This world has it too. We small glimpses of it as the story goes. That helps build the world but seeing some of this highlighted in the beginning and what is pointed out in the world, I expected it to surface again more importantly later in the book. Some of it does pop up, but not as heavy yet. Though, it does show where the fears and thoughts in the system at Ancora had come from. I'm wondering if it's a huge build up to the end.

Most of the story is from Jacob's POV, but we do get views from Alice, Charles, and Samuel. Even Drakkar. Jacob has an obstacle he must overcome. With the way the book began (actually the first book touched on), I expected it to happen. And it did. Alice is not a dainty little girl as some would thing. She hardens here, and comes to a new view on things. I like the person Alice is. She's got a flare to her.

If it wasn't for the danger that the characters are coming into, I'd say this book would be for the younger group of young adults. The story is simple and things are repeated to clarify what is happening and the plans they are making. Well written for a younger reader.

This book feels like a transition book. It's setting up for a great battle and war to come in the next book. It's putting into place all the pieces and people so we understand why things are going to get ugly in the future. It also brings the characters across events and actions they must take to be to a place to go into war.

Good writing, fun steampunk, could use more of arc

I really enjoyed the followup to Steamborn, the narration was excellent and really helped with immersion into the story!

I do enjoy Eric Asher's writing, I enjoyed the world building and characters very much. The only thing I didn't like about this book, and its not a unique problem with this book but with many series books, is that this book by itself had no story arc, it only served to further the series arc and felt like nothing was really accomplished.

Amazing continuation

Some series have an amazing start and then are lacking from that point on. This is not one of those series! Just like with the first book in this series, I wanted to listen to it from start to finish once I began it.

I love the Steampunk kind of world that is created here. I can see so many of the creations in the book and feel the character's wonder and awe at the new creations that they never felt was possible. I love that we're getting to learn more about this amazing world and the almost secret war that is lurking just below the surface of society.

I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the narration of the book. I can't wait to listen to the next book in the series!

This review copy audiobook was provided by the author/narrator/publisher free of charge.