Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson

Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson - 310 pages

Verity Newton is new to New York City in 1888 looking for work as a governess.  She's lucky in finding a job her first day of interviews.  She thinks her luck is continuing when she meets a group of friends.  Turns out these friends are all involved in a rebellion against the British government trying to win their freedom.  She agrees to act a spy for these mechanics against the magisters (including her employer).  But is everything as it seems?

This is the first in a trilogy about an alternate America where British magicians kept the colonies from rebelling.  I really enjoyed this first book and can't wait to read the next two books in the series.

Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson

Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson  310 pages

It's 1888, and seventeen-year-old Verity Newton lands a job in New York as a governess to a wealthy leading family - but 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 non-magical sources of power via steam engines that they hope will help them gain freedom from British rule. The family Verity works for is magister - but it seems like the children's 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 family's life. She soon realizes she's uniquely positioned to advance the cause - but to do so, she'll have to reveal her own dangerous secret.