The Ruby Airship

by Sharon Gosling

Overview

In this action-packed sequel to The Diamond Thief, trapeze-artist Remy has left the circus and her life as a jewel thief behind, but doubts that young detective Thaddeus Rec will ever truly trust her. Torn between her new life and her old, her mind is made up when Yannick, a fellow circus-performer from Remy's past, arrives in London. Remy decides it's time to go with him to France, and rejoin her best friend Claudette and the circus. But Thaddeus is sure that Yannick is up to no good. He's determined to track them down and win Remy back, even if he has to embark on a perilous journey by airship to do so.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630790042
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Series:	Diamond Thief Series
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.70(d)
Lexile:	HL810L (what's this?)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Sharon Gosling always wanted to be a writer. She started as an entertainment journalist, writing about television series such as Stargate and Battlestar Galactica. Her first novel was published under a pen name in 2010. Sharon and her husband live in a very small cottage in a very remote village in the north of England, surrounded by sheep-dotted fells. The village has its own vampire, although Sharon hasn’t met it yet. The cat might have, but he seems to have been sworn to secrecy and won’t say a thing.

Editorial Reviews

2014-11-18
A former jewel thief acrobatically attempts to rescue an entire circus while one corner of her love triangle chases her down in a ruby-powered airship and villains build evil mechanical armies.A French circus performer and wanted criminal, Rémy has gone straight since her previous steampunk adventures (The Diamond Thief, 2014). Instead of stealing jewels, she makes a living as a wire-walker on the London stage (spicing up her life by rescuing the gentry from highwaymen, all while wearing a painted mask and a visible corset). She's happy enough living with her best friend, a guttersnipe engineer who blends the faux-Cockney of Bert from Mary Poppins with an ahistorical touch of vaudeville. When Rémy's tentative suitor, a handsome teenage policeman, doubts her reformation (mind-reading gem powers aren't all they're cracked up to be when they let a girl know her love's not-always-supportive thoughts), she flounces off to France in a rage. But not a one of her old circus friends is truly the person Rémy thought she knew: Some are villains, while others are storybook victims. The usual larger-than-life steampunk fare (automaton armies, airships, goggles and corsets) sits alongside magic jewels that enable telepathy or produce lighter-than-air gas. And of course, there are plenty of secrets held in reserve for the next book, promising revelations both personal and epic in scale. Steampunk fans will enjoy the action-packed, takes-itself-seriously silliness. (Steampunk. 12-16)

Kirkus Reviews