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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 7–9—Three young women make a pact to step out of their circumscribed lives and use their brains and talents to rescue Edwardian London from possible destruction. Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, working for a well-connected inventor, a famous magician, and an inept samurai fight master, respectively, spend their days doing work that furthers their masters' reputations in exchange for food, clothing, and safe housing (although Michiko must endure her employer's mistreatment). As circumstance would have it, their lives collide-literally, on occasion-and they discover that there is a plot afoot to blow up t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on December 1, 2012
In this Edwardian Charlie’s Angels meets Ruby in the Smoke romp, Kress introduces three memorable teen protagonists. Science-minded Cora is the lab tech, social secretary, and all-around gal Friday for Lord White, inventor and peer of the realm. Bubbly blonde Nellie is the lithe and agile (of both mind and body) on-stage assistant to popular magician the Great Raheem. Japanese transplant Michiko, employed by a greedy man named Callum, uses her samurai training to perform combat demos and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
