Ultimate Nyssa Glass: The Complete Series

By: H. L. Burke

Narrated by: 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.