Looks like this is my first Fab Finds for October, mostly because I have been trying not to acquire quite so much lately (without much success). However, this week (and last) I've only been worried about collecting a single series: the Magnificent Devices series by Shelley Adina.
I heard about it from a "greatest steampunk books" list, though where that list came from I don't remember. It's a fun, lightweight series of adventures. They often stretch credulity-- they are plotted within an inch of their life-- but the characters are so easy to love, and the adventures are so fun, I couldn't help but get caught up in them. They do start to wear a little thin near the end, but I chalk this up to reading them so quickly and without other books in between, rather than any actual lowering in quality of the stories themselves. They have a nice feminist slant, too.
I bought them all digitally, the first four in a box set, 5 and 6 in a pair, and the last two individually. (The first standalone volume is actually free- I was expecting disappointment, and ended up buying all of them).
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