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This prequel novella was offered as a free download on amazon, so I decided to give it a go to see if it would whet my appetite for the series. It didn't.

It was an ok steampunkish/mad-scientist kind of story, but the characters weren't interesting or unique enough to really catch my attention, and the story was pretty straight-forward and obvious, and it was definitely a "d'oh" moment when the heroine didn't cop onto the mystery right away.

I realize that this is just a novella so there's not a lot of time for world-building and back-story and whatnot. There's enough, I suppose, but I felt a lack of any real depth to the story - to all aspects of the story, really.

I wasn't really that keen on the series when I first saw it, and this novella has done nothing to change my mind.