The God's Eye

Lancaster's Luck, Book 3

By: Anna Butler

Narrated by: Gary Furlong

Book three in the Lancaster's Luck M/M steampunk trilogy.

Rafe Lancaster is reluctantly settling into his role as the first heir of House Stravaigor. Trapped by his father’s illness and his new responsibilities, Rafe can’t go with lover Ned Winter to Aegypt for the 1902-'03 archaeological digging season. Rafe’s unease at being left behind intensifies when Ned’s fascination with the strange Antikythera mechanism and its intriguing link to the Aegyptian god Thoth has Ned heading south to the remote, unexplored highlands of Abyssinia and the course of the Blue Nile. Searching for Thoth’s deadly secrets, Ned is out of contact and far from help. When he doesn’t return at Christmas as he promised, everything points to trouble. Rafe is left with a stark choice–abandon his dying father or risk never seeing Ned again.

©2019 Anna Butler (P)2022 Decent Fellows Press

Loved it

This series gets better with each book as they build on the ones before. The narration is excellent and the story is interesting and exciting. I’ll be watching for more to come.

I never want this series to end

Okay, from the beginning, Anna had me sucked into this series. Rafe, the protagonist, has such a strong and compelling voice. Slightly sarcastic, very witty, and an over-the-top ego that just fits an aeronaut perfectly. He’s coming into himself now that he’s been discharged from the aerocorps and is navigating his new coffee house, his obligations to the man he’s discovered is his father, as well as the complications of loving a man at a time when that’s not always just accepted.

Oh, and he has to produce an heir to keep the house going.

But he’s got plans for his younger sister to take care of all that nonsense.

With his father’s illness, though, he cannot go to Aegypt and he’s going to be away from his beloved.

Until said beloved goes missing and, of course, Rafe has to fly out to save him.

And, oh my god, things just got a little crazy from there.

As always, the story kept my spell-bound as I waited to find out how Rafe and Ned were going to escape. Throw in adventurous family members, Nazis, Russians, Germans, and general chaos and wow, what a ride.
I’m sad to see this couple fly off to their future together, but am so happy to recommend this book – and the entire trilogy – to anyone looking for a grand steampunk adventure.

Finally, I must mention Gary Furlong. Truly, the man’s a genius and his narration of this story was amazing. His embodiment of Rafe was fantastic and I can honestly say he was the perfect person for the task. I’ll be happy to pick up anything else Anna might send my way…

Grand finale

What an amazing adventure & finale to thus fantastic trilogy. I loved every moment if it, and am sad to see it end. Once again a major shout out to Gary Furlong, who did an amazing job of narration.