Steam by Stacey RourkeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Steam just may be the best of the three in the Legends Saga. It combines 2 of my favorite things, Sleepy Hollow and the Salem Witch Trials. Rourke does a fantastic job weaving two very different tales simultaneously into one. Steam is a poetic nightmare. It weaves a dark, twisted, and vile tale that underneath lies a beautiful love story. HG Wells will do anything to get back the wife he lost to the city of Roanoke. Noah is battling the Hessian within Ireland to claim back the woman he loves. All while the story of Preen Hester and the Salem witch trials is being woven in. The entire story plays out before the reader in heart pounding fashion. My pulse quicken, my breath caught, my knuckles whiten with the intensity of the each page. I could not look away.
Fans of the Legends Saga will not be disappointed in Steam. The charming, yet frightening Ireland Crane does not disappoint. She is my favorite returning character in the series because despite being host to the diabolical Hessian, Ireland is witty, spunky, and you have to root for her. Preen’s story is tragic. There is no good way to spin it. She was played liked a fiddle and her fate was sealed from the beginning. Her story adds the perfect twist to the story.
The Legends Saga is the stuff of nightmares and Steam is the scariest of all. How does such an adorable little pixie like Stacey Rourke come up with such things? After completing Raven (Book 2), Rourke was quoted as saying “writing about Poe took me to some pretty dark places, I had to write Adapted For Film to lighten things up.” So I ask you Mrs. Rourke, after writing this nightmarish tale, how do you bounce back? Should we expect unicorns and rainbows in your next story? I think most of your fans will agree we need a little something light hearted after living through Steam.
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Time passes, sins forgotten.
The bodies of the victims long since rotten.
Trapped within the essence of the Headless Horseman by the guilt of slaughtering her best friend, Ireland Crane follows the father of science fiction, HG Wells, in search of freedom from the curse that binds her. Instead, she discovers even he has a hidden agenda. A dark, relentless passion to be reunited with the woman he loves has driven him to manipulate time and a murderous Horseman.
Yet heed my warning, as the Raven flies,
The Hessian will come … and you will die.
All that prevents Ireland from abandoning Wells’ twisted pursuit, or introducing him to her sword, are the undead witches haunting her. Begging for freedom from a vile succubus, the ghoulish coven leads Ireland and her crew on a journey through Salem’s sordid past. There, they learn there is more to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s history than a scarlet letter, and the secret they’ve uncovered seeks to destroy them all.
The bodies of the victims long since rotten.
Trapped within the essence of the Headless Horseman by the guilt of slaughtering her best friend, Ireland Crane follows the father of science fiction, HG Wells, in search of freedom from the curse that binds her. Instead, she discovers even he has a hidden agenda. A dark, relentless passion to be reunited with the woman he loves has driven him to manipulate time and a murderous Horseman.
Yet heed my warning, as the Raven flies,
The Hessian will come … and you will die.
All that prevents Ireland from abandoning Wells’ twisted pursuit, or introducing him to her sword, are the undead witches haunting her. Begging for freedom from a vile succubus, the ghoulish coven leads Ireland and her crew on a journey through Salem’s sordid past. There, they learn there is more to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s history than a scarlet letter, and the secret they’ve uncovered seeks to destroy them all.
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