Jess's Reviews > Steamed

The word that comes to mind when I think about trying to describe this book is quirky. If you're picking this book up, and think it's going to be similar to MacAlister's other series.. you are in for a bit of a surprise. It was funny in a weird way, but has nothing to do with dragons or demons or anything like that.

I suggest to look in the Glossary in the back and look it over before reading. This helped when the author throws around words all the time as if we're supposed to know what they mean.

The main gist of the book is a man named Jack and his sister Hallie are in his lab one day, and due to some weird freaky event they get sucked into an alternate reality. They wake up on the deck of the ship and in front of them is a red-haired woman (named Octavia) wearing clothes fashionable in the Victorian Era. As they struggle to figure out what happened, and how to get home, they realize that they have landed on more than just another ship. The narrator of the book is from the POV of Jack and then Octavia takes over later in the book. It was really interesting to have the book start off from a male POV, I find very few books have a male as the main character telling the story so that was fun. MacAlister's trademark humor and quirky conversations were still present which made the book a little more fun. But it was really confusing in the beginning to figure out what was going on. After awhile the double entendres became just obnoxious, and I wanted to smack Jack across the face for being annoying. But the sexual chemistry between Octavia and Jack was pretty hot.

Overall, it was a unique book and I think I will check out the next in the series just to see where MacAlister takes the story.