Time Travel Steampunk. This is a fun read from K. H. Koehler. The story begins in 1889, with the heroine, Sasha Strange, on the verge of being married off to the boorish brute Lord Sirius Quinn. To the chagrin of her father, Sasha is only interested in science and the freedom to explore away from high society. Lord Quinn gets drunk and passes out at the dinner at which their engagement is to be announced— an announcement that surprises everyone, including Sasha. Sasha retreats to her laboratory to lament her fate, and to show off her latest experiment, the Tuning Machine, to her part-time assistant, Toby. A twist of fate sends Sasha, Toby, and Lord Quinn through the vortex of time and place to another world, populated by dinosaurs and a tribe of people known as the Sen, with no way back to 1889.
Planet of Dinosaurs is the first book of a trilogy about Sasha and her traveling companions. I really enjoyed reading this work and am looking forward to reading the next two parts, Sea of Serpents and Valley of Dragons. The author does a great job of description and setting the tone throughout, using period dialogue effectively and without breaking the flow of the story. You really get a sense of each character as an individual. I am not a fan of dinosaur stories, but there is enough science, history, and action mixed in that I had a good time with this one. Other works I have read from her are Slayer, The Blackburn and Scarletti Mysteries, Volumes I & II, Scarabus, and The Dreadful Doctor Faust. Recommended for adult readers.
Contains: Gore, Graphic Violence, Adult situations, Adult Language
Reviewed by: Aaron Fletcher