The blurb on the jacket says that Alan Gratz “began writing The League of Seven by listing all the things that ten-year-old Alan would have thought were awesome, including brass goggles, airships, tentacled monsters, brains in jars, windup robots, secret societies, and super powers.”  And he has certainly created a vivid Steampunk world full of wondrous creations – steam-run submarines, airships, Tik Tok servants who are programmed by plug-in cards. But the characters, especially Archie, are not quite as well developed and the horror, inspired by Lovecraft, and death could be too much for timid readers.  Parents may well wish to read this first if their children are easily scared.  Overall I recommend this and look forward to the next installment. ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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