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Set in a Victorian steampunk alternative world, Violet is a brilliant engineer and longs to go Illyria College. However, the school only accepts young men. Violet comes up with a scheme to pose as her twin brother, Ashton and puts in an application to the school. With Ashton’s and their friend Jack’s help, Violet creates a disguise and enrolls at Illyria, rooming with Jack. Along with her educational pursuits, Violet runs into challenges when the niece of the director of the college begins to fall in love with her, and she herself has feelings for the director, Ernest himself. Underlying the gender bending story is a sinister plot that the students begin to unravel. With a cameo appearance by Ada Lovelace who shrewdly figures out what Violet is up to, this is a mostly enjoyable steampunk adventure.


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All Men of Genius Lev A C Rosen 9780765327949 Books Reviews

The book was an easy read, it could have used another editing, but otherwise enjoyable. I like the story line, enjoyed being taken to England through the seasons and loved the science and premise of the book.
If you like the comedy of Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, and steampunk novel genre then this is the book for you. I found that the book was well written and entertaining.
I'm an adult reader of YA fiction. Very cute story. There is an openly gay character but no sex descriptions but the boys are mentioned in bed together. I only mention this if you are a parent concerned about what your child is reading. Really its no big deal. Simple story, Girl pretends to be her brother to go to engineering school. Characters are easy to like. Text is easy to read. All in all it's a fun book.
I really liked this book. The character development was great; even the secondary characters definitely had distinct personalities. Illyria and the various things the students created and encountered, including strange inventions, were described well, so I could easily imagine them. There was adventure, and conflict (with creepy automata!), and a good amount of humor too. I really like the main character, Violet. It was easy for me to identify with her strong desire to fulfill her dreams, and overcome her society's prejudices about the role of women.
As someone who can count the books I have finished reading on one hand, I must say this was as close to a couldn't put it down book as I have ever come. I normally prefer audio books to help engage my imagination however the writing style of the author made it quite easy to picture the moving gears and mechanic's of the school. The characters come to life in a quite vivid and real manner. The chapters are spaced out in a manner where it is not overwhelming to finish a chapter if you need a break. It is quite easily one of the best books I have ever read and cannot wait to read the next.
Rosen's debut novel is thoroughly modernist, paying constant homage. The most overt references are to Twelfth Night and The Importance of Being Earnest and no wonder, because the plot of All Men of Genius takes on shades of Shakespearean comedy and Wildean farse even as it purports to be a steampunk adventure (more accurately it's a gearpunk adventure, but who am I to argue with the marketing departments?).

Our hero is Violet (get it?!), a mechanical genius who decides to impersonate her brother so she can attend an elite all-male technical school. The headmaster is a duke named Ernest (get it?!) who is flanked by his ward Cecily (get it?!). With the help of her friend Jack (get it?!), she must keep them all fooled without being thwarted by Mal Volio (see what he did there?!?!?!). Also, there are rabbits named Shakespeare and Oscar. Rosen is not a man who suffers from an abundance of subtlety.

Like the farse and the Shakespearean comedy, the story is at its heart a ridiculous conflagration of confused love stories. That Rosen is able to keep all of these pieces more or less in the air at once is actually fairly impressive, and the story is at its best when it's playing with dramatic irony and orchestrating bizarre love quadrangles. The structure of the story, however, is a bit bewildering. It's told from the third person omniscient perspective (Rosen handles the head-hopping more gracefully than, say, Gail Carriger, so I didn't actively hate it... very much). This is pretty standard for books set in that period and allows for some abbreviated storytelling, but it's still a little jarring if you're not used to it. Rosen lacks the J.K. Rowling talent of spreading a plot over a school term, so the pacing is at times uneven. At the 40% mark, the school session was still in its first week. Around the two-thirds mark we start getting elaborate back stories for supporting characters who had been fairly one-dimensional up to that point. While it's interesting to learn that Professor Lothario (get it?!) Prism is colorblind, and that's why he uses those complex lenses that made him seem like such a caricature, it's a weird thing to trot out in the middle of Act III.

And sometimes it's just clunky. Mysteries are pondered and abandoned. An entire subplot about a machine imitating a specific person is wholly unnecessary. The big action set piece is telegraphed pretty transparently, although it is executed with skill. Also, this is a book with an agenda. The gender-politics aren't bash-you-over-the-head up front... well, okay, they really are. And not just gender, we get gay rights pleas as well. Not that his message was wrong, per se, it just felt a wee bit preachy at times. But for all its warts, AMoG is ridiculously fun. It's light-hearted enough to not take itself very seriously and smart enough to enjoy the more over-the-top laughs that such non-seriousness affords. And while it may be mashed together from familiar parts, Rosen fits the pieces together into a tightly-wound and enjoyable whole.
The story is fun and interesting, although there aren't any major plot surprises for anyone who's familiar with Twelfth Night. The steampunk interpretation is definitely fun, and I loved reading the descriptions of science going on at Illyria College. As a scientist, I hate when authors make up science and try to connect it to real science, or provide extensive detail that is just wrong. I love that this author embraces his science as fantasy and runs with it. I didn't love the writing, unfortunately. The writing feels a little pompous and self-important. To a certain extent that is consistent with the general feel of steampunk, but I think the author goes a little too far. I hope that in his future books he reins it in some. I would definitely recommend this book based on the story, not the writing. If you're the kind of person who loves a good story and doesn't really notice the quality of writing, this book is for you. I do not recommend it for people who have trouble finishing a book if the writing isn't exquisite.
Set in a Victorian steampunk alternative world, Violet is a brilliant engineer and longs to go Illyria College. However, the school only accepts young men. Violet comes up with a scheme to pose as her twin brother, Ashton and puts in an application to the school. With Ashton’s and their friend Jack’s help, Violet creates a disguise and enrolls at Illyria, rooming with Jack. Along with her educational pursuits, Violet runs into challenges when the niece of the director of the college begins to fall in love with her, and she herself has feelings for the director, Ernest himself. Underlying the gender bending story is a sinister plot that the students begin to unravel. With a cameo appearance by Ada Lovelace who shrewdly figures out what Violet is up to, this is a mostly enjoyable steampunk adventure.