Yesterday @KirkusReviews...

...I wrote about Colleen Gleason's The Clockwork Scarab, a steampunk adventure that stars the daughter of Mycroft Holmes and the sister of Bram Stoker:

In The Clockwork Scarab, the two very different girls—Mina, a scientist and thinker; Evaline, a hot-headed vampire hunter—are thrown together and given a mystery to solve: Who is behind the recent spate of upper-crust dead girls? Over the course of their investigation, they attend the event of the season, uncover a secret society, and blush a whole lot in the presence of a police inspector, a pickpocket and a boy not just from the future, but from an alternate universe…and realize that despite their differences, they are much more similar than either one would have ever expected.

And last week, I wrote about another book with some Egyptian flavor: Bryony Pearce's The Weight of Souls:

It took a little while—much of the dialogue in the first third reads flat, the bullies are especially two-dimensional, and the segues between Taylor’s present-day narration and her memories are inorganic and repetitive (she does a lot of closing her eyes and remembering)—but eventually, Pearce and Taylor won me over: Overall, it’s a solid romantic paranormal mystery, and I got emotionally invested almost despite myself.

It's rare for my opinion of a book to turn around as drastically as it did with The Weight of Souls. I really am looking forward to the sequel.