Clementine
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Maria Isabella Boyd’s success as a Confederate spy has made her too legendary for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty…she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.
Adding insult to injury, her first huge assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In fleeting, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn’t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials–essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, lacking delay.
Intelligence suggests that the inexorable pursuer is a run off slave who’s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and into the world across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to bright sea.
And now it s Maria’s job to go get him.
He’s treacherous quarry and she’s a treacherous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her relations. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.
And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.
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I just set down the novel, and I’m still cackling with glee. This is a tremendously fun, stand-alone novel in Priest’s Clockwork Century, following on from BONESHAKER. This volume is a fleeting read, quick-paced, but richly detailed in character, plot, and setting.
CLEMENTINE is better than most huge-screen summer blockbusters, and you don’t even need the 3-D glasses.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I just finished reading Clementine by Cherie Priest, which I downloaded and read on my Kindle reader. This was a fun, although fleeting, followup to Boneshaker. Reading Boneshaker is not necessary to delight in this novel, but it helps to set the context. There are a few characters that will be recognizable. The tale follows two primary protagonists, Belle Boyd (a ex- Confederate spy) and Croggon Hainey (an blimp pirate who appeared in Boneshaker). The tale starts with Hainey pusuing his stolen dirigible, which the thieves have renamed to Clementine. Boyd was just hired by the Pinkerton detective agency, and her mission is to see that the cargo the thieves are transporting arrives at its destination… and, if she so desires, an opportunity to capture Hainey, a fugitive slave whose capture may buy her favor with her ex- employer, the Confederacy. The two eventually cross paths, and start a wary partnership. It is a fantastic ride. The book is pretty fleeting, but the Kindle fee reflects that. I highly recommend reading Boneshaker and folowing it up with this.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Cherie Priest had a excellent thing ongoing with her steampunk tale, Boneshaker, set in an alternate Seattle overrun by zombies and populated by the brass, glass and goggles that we’ve come to expect from the Steampunk genre. Taking place in an American Civil War that has run on for twenty years, rather than the four that it really lasted for, there is a new entry in the series: Clementine, a fleeting tale that takes off from Boneshaker. Priest has nonstop the tale forwards, and it proves to be a fleeting tale from the world that she will be continuing onwards with the Clockwork Century. Ultimately, this book is a fleeting one, and is only able to wet reader’s appetites, while not delivering fully on a comparable tale such as Boneshaker.
Clementine borrows a couple of characters that were seen briefly in Boneshaker, Croggon Hainey and his crew, who are in pursuit of his stolen blimp, the Free Crow. At the same time, Priest introduces a new character, Maria “Belle” Boyd, a ex- Confederate Spy, who has been hired by the infamous Pinkerton Detective Agency to ensure manner of language of the cargo of another blimp, with weapons for the Union. The two characters collide when their paths cross, and work together to reach their respective goals: Hainey to retrieve his ship, Boyd end out her first job with the Pinkertons.
The book, while fleeting, is an entertaining read that tells a compact tale set in Priest’s Clockwork Century universe, first seen in Boneshaker, which proved to be an appealing, if to some extent limited view of the outside world, where fundamentals of the ongoing conflict were alluded to, but not seen.
That might have been the better approach, but, because while it’s excellent to see that Priest is continuing the series, Clementine is forceful by its size – a mere 201 pages, with easily twice that amount of tale shoved into it, building it feel like there was much more to tell. Events take place rather quickly, conveniently and at points, the fact that this is set in a Steampunk world is something that’s pushed forwards regularly and the end result feels to some extent forced, where Boneshaker felt like it flowed forwards a bit simpler in its own world.
The size issue is to be expected, agreed the part of the tale, but the tale simply feels too huge in scale to really fit in. Fortunately, the book holds enough to really hold one’s interest throughout as it flies by – this is a quick read, and there is plenty of action and gunplay to keep the events moving along briskly.
One of the points that I establish most appealing was the attention to detail that Priest exhibits when it comes to prior past record and the Civil War, but also social relations. With the Civil War continuing onwards, there is a ripple throughout the country on the impact of the war, which is nicely seen here: race relations, mercenary organizations, military hardware and similar happenings are seen throughout the tale, and I have to commend Priest on moving towards the Civil War slowly – I suspect that something like that would be several books in and of itself.
The Civil War is a intricate, well documented war, and in Priest’s universe, that has nonstop onwards for decades longer than the actual conflict – a convenient plot contrivance to clarify the equipment and event that happened in this alternate world. This fleeting book reveals just a small bit more to the audience, but just enough to keep people wanting more. The next book, Dreadnought, is due out in a couple of weeks, and looks like it will fit far better with Clementine than it will with Boneshaker.
When putting the two together, I reflect that Boneshaker is the preferable book to point people towards, simply because it held my interest far better than an alternate Civil War tale. There are Zombies (and while I dislike them when they’re poorly written, this wasn’t the case here), weird equipment, an abandoned city and so into the world, this book didn’t have the same depth, and I’m hoping that that is just due to part.
This is certainly a series that will be well loved, and Clementine will be the book that the real fans will go to, to get that added bit of insight into the world while they wait for the next book to come out. It’s certainly tided me over while waiting for the next read. One can only hope that we’ll see additional tales to come out of the Clockwork Century while we wait.
Originally posted to my blog.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
With this book and its predecessor, Boneshaker, Cherie Priest has not only become one of my new favorite authors, but has also made steampunk enjoyable for more than just its clothes and gadgets. Clementine is not only ten times more exciting than any summer blockbuster, but features characters that you really like and care about. My only complaint about this book is that there is not more of it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I loved Boneshaker the first book in Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century series so I was really looking forwards to reading Clementine. I was not disappointed, I loved this book. It follows a different set of characters and can be read separately from the first book (although there is some reference to the events that take place in the first book).
Maria Isabella Boyd is a legendary actress and Confederate spy; after the Confederates kick her out she goes to the Union to work for the Pinkerton Detective Agency there. There she is agreed a mission of ensuring some stolen cargo gets to where it’s suppose to be. Along the way she crosses paths with Croggon Hainey, who is an escaped slave turned air pirate. Croggon wants his ship, the Clementine, back and this just happens to be the ship that is carrying Maria’s cargo. Despite their different backgrounds and goals they are forced to cooperate in order to get what they want.
This book was just perfect. It is like a retelling of the Civil War era but with airships and crazy gadgets. It happens in a similar time frame as the first book, there is some mention of the crazy things happening in Seattle. You can’t help but like Maria with her “can do it” attitude and her absolute fearlessness. Priest gives us a civil war dame with a treacherous streak in Maria and it is wonderful. Croggon is another fantastic character, he wants his ship back and will stop at nothing to retrieve it, still (like all excellent pirate characters) he has a sense of morality that won’t let him place a pal in a tough position.
The descriptions of the air battles are superb and the I can permanently picture exactly what Priest is trying to show me. The book is fleeting, at barely over 200 pages, but the tale packs a punch all the same. Issues of piracy, slavery, woman’s rights are all touched on in this very convincing re-imagination of this era.
I absolutely loved all the steampunk details and the descriptions are spot on. I really delight in Priest’s writing style; she weaves a forceful plot with wonderful action scenes and description. This book was truly a treat to read and I was kind of sad when it was over.
Overall just a wonderful book. I am really looking forwards to reading the final Clockwork Century novel Dreadnought, which will be unrestricted late September 2010.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5