What if British magic kept the American Revolution from ever occurring? Its 1888, and seventeenyearold Verity Newton lands a job in New York as a governess to a wealthy leading familybut she quickly learns that the family has big secrets. Magisters have always ruled the colonies, but now an underground society of mechanics and engineers are developing nonmagical sources of power via steam engines that they hope will help them gain freedom from British rule. The family Verity works for is magisterbut it seems like the childrens young guardian uncle is sympathetic to the rebel cause. As Verity falls for a charming rebel inventor and agrees to become a spy, she also becomes more and more enmeshed in the magister familys life. She soon realizes shes uniquely positioned to advance the causebut to do so, shell have to reveal her own dangerous secret. Rebel Mechanics: All Is Fair in Love and Revolution by Shanna Swendson is a fastpaced, romantic young adult novel full of intrigue and starring a strong, spunky heroine.Steampunk fans will enjoy this gadgetfilled costume drama. Kirkus Reviews
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