This collection, Shadow Conspiracy II, is all about steampunk and while I enjoyed it, I had to read it in sessions or I found the stories repetitive. ( )

I always find anthologies a bit hit and miss, and it really depends on a good editor to pick the right stories to tie a theme together. This has happened here. I found the collection to be cohesive, and able to pull me through to the end. The stories were all heavily steampunk, some serious, some light, but I enjoyed them all ( )

I love steampunk -- but I had a really hard time getting into this series and it took quite a few tries. I kept putting it down and choosing other books to read or re-read. ( )

This collection, Shadow Conspiracy II, is all about steampunk and while I enjoyed it, I had to read it in sessions or I found the stories repetitive. ( )

If you really love steampunk, if you can read references to Babbage and Lovelace ad nauseum, then you are going to love this book. If that doesn't sound like fun to you, then a few of the stories will still be interesting enough to read, but you may tire of the repetitiveness rather quickly.

The one thing about this collection is that there are a lot of protagonists of varying genders and races and robot parts. ( )