"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. All in all, the vivid setting and the finely drawn, compelling heroines make this a fine choice for readers who like their stories with steampunk spice and smart, strong women.–Jennifer Prince, Buncombe County Public Libraries, NCα(c) Copyright 2013. Sherlock Holmes and Bram Stoker add familiar excitement with their cameo appearances. Throughout their adventure, they have the help (and admiration) of mysterious, possibly criminal, Pix intelligent Inspector Grayling and accidental time-traveler Dylan. We never learn how or why Dylan travelled through time into a weird alternate past. We never learn what the Sekhmet cult was all about. Stoker, a pretty and vivacious vampire hunter, is brave and strong, but she, too, has her vulnerabilities. The Clockwork Scarab is the first of a series and it suffers from the same unresolved conflict issues that plagued many other YA series. At heart, she is insecure about her looks and worries about what guys think of her. However, readers come to discover that she uses her snobbishness as protection. Holmes, highly logical and serious, comes across as aloof, even a bit of a snob. As the teens get closer to the truth, they get closer to being counted among those killed. As the pair infiltrates opium dens, pubs, society balls, and seedy criminal lairs, they discover that a secret society based on Egyptology is at the heart of the bad business. Reluctantly at first, Mina Holmes, the teenage niece of Sherlock Holmes, and Evaline Stoker, the teenage sister of Bram Stoker, combine their sleuthing and hand-to-hand combat talents to find out why society girls are turning up dead. An alternate, steampunk version of 19th-century London is the setting for this first title of a proposed series. Gr 8 Up–This book has it all: plot, setting, character development. If Stoker and Holmes don’t unravel why the belles of London society are in such danger, they’ll become the next victims.
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