If there is one thing as a reader you should know about this book, it's that the title really has nothing to do with the actual book. It will be better knowing this when you start reading it. Yes, at one point Finley Jayne, our heroin, is given a steel corset in order to protect her, and subsequently gets into a fight where half of London gets a peek at her in it, but it doesn't play as big role in the book as the title makes it seem. This didn't prevent me from thoroughly enjoying the book, but it certainly surprised me.
Finley Jayne is a servant girl in 1897 England, and has been forced from job to job due to something inside of her she can't explain. This darkness or monster lurking inside of her has been creeping up more and more as of late. When her dark side takes over she has the capability to take down full grown men, which is exactly what she does when the Lord of the manor's son tries to force himself on her, and Finley's dark self nearly kills him for doing so.
When Finley flees the scene in order to save herself from the consequences of her actions, she runs into the Duke of Greythorne, Griffin King. Well, to be more accurate, he runs into her with his velocycle. Griffin takes the unconscious Finley to his estate where he soon discovers the seemingly frail girl is not what she seems; and as it turns out, no one living at the is estate is what they seem either. Griffin, Sam, Emily, and Jasper all have one thing in common: they are far from normal. Each of them has unique abilities, and they have banded together to try and stop a man known as The Machinist.
The Machinist, who seems to have the capability to control automatons, has been wreaking havoc all over London. Finley is soon swept up in their investigation, but the monster in her threatens to tear the company apart... which is exactly what The Machinist wants, and in order to fulfill his master plan, he cannot have this team of misfits interfering.
X-men meets the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the only way to describe this book. It was refreshing and exciting. The setting was one of my favorite parts: a futuristic London full of modern technology and a little bit of the paranormal, but given a 19th century style. Cross' characters were fantastic, it's been a long time since I truly got attached to every character in a book! Some of them didn't get quite as developed as I would have liked, but I'm hoping that will happen in the next book.
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