25 years ago, an alien race called the Medusae came to earth to study mankind. After a year of the race floating in the sky, they disappeared and in consecutive years, baby girls were born with special abilities. Penelope is the fifth daughter in her family, something unheard of, and has to pretend to be a boy so her powers aren’t discovered. But one day everything goes wrong, her family are captured and Penn might be the one to save them all.

I liked the premise of this book and the somewhat dystopian/steampunk nature of the story as well due to the mechanical automatons that Penn’s father creates and other human machines like Klok. However, this book just ended up being very messy and the storyline just didn’t really go in a straight line for me.

The first half and the second half felt unconnected. I preferred the second half when there was a set setting and we weren’t bouncing all over the place (there was a point where the settings seemed to change every paragraph or two and left me really confused). I liked the second half in the facility but again a lot went unexplained, and a lot of things happened at once that felt confusing for the reader.

I was unable to review this book due to losing my original Amazon account, and the books were archived. So I cannot re-download. I do still think this novel sounds amazing and will do my best to read in the future.
Thank you to netgalley for allowing me the title in the first place.
Apologies to netgalley, the author, and the publisher for not reviewing promptly.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review, which has not altered my opinion of this book.

This was a bit of a surprise for me. I wasn’t positive what to expect, but it wasn’t what I read. In fact, I found myself enjoying this book quite a lot. In fact, I am currently working through the second book because I enjoyed it so much. I was a bit lost through parts, especially at the beginning, but as the pieces of the puzzle started coming together to got much easier to understand.

The down part for me was honestly Penn. I found her to be unwilling and really kinda bratty especially at the beginning. I understand she has been kept completely in the dark about what’s going on and her powers, but still… She doesn’t seem to always even want to look at the bright side of things. On the other hand, I think that it would have been better had her father taught her a bit about her powers because that really would have helped her in the long run. The characters themselves are pretty complex and unique for the most part.

Overall, I really did enjoy this book and I would recommend it to fans of younger adult fantasy adventures. It’s probably a pretty good one for someone getting into fantasy but who has had a little bit of exposure in the past. 4 out of 5 from me.

I never had a chance to review this before it expired. I'm sorry!

I actually attempted to read this book on two separate occasions and I just can't get into it. I love the premise, but the writing is just not for me.