{"id":570,"date":"2014-01-17T17:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=570"},"modified":"2014-01-17T17:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:45:50","slug":"review-planet-of-dinosaurs-the-sasha-strange-chronicles-by-k-h-koehler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Review: Planet of Dinosaurs: The Sasha Strange Chronicles by K. H. Koehler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/planetofthedinosaurs.JPG\" width=\"104\" height=\"166\" \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Time Travel Steampunk.\u00a0 This is a fun read from K. H. Koehler.\u00a0 The story begins in 1889, with the heroine, Sasha Strange, on the verge of being married off to the boorish brute Lord Sirius Quinn.\u00a0 To the chagrin of her father, Sasha is only interested in science and the freedom to explore away from high society.\u00a0 Lord Quinn gets drunk and passes out at the dinner at which their engagement is to be announced\u2014 an announcement that surprises everyone, including Sasha. \u00a0Sasha retreats to her laboratory to lament her fate, and to show off her latest experiment, the Tuning Machine, to her part-time assistant, Toby.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Planet of Dinosaurs<\/i>\u00a0is 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,\u00a0<i>Sea of Serpents\u00a0<\/i>and<i>\u00a0Valley of Dragons<\/i>.\u00a0<i>\u00a0<\/i>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.\u00a0 You really get a sense of each character as an individual.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Other works I have read from her\u00a0<i>are Slayer, The Blackburn and Scarletti Mysteries, Volumes I &amp; II,\u00a0 Scarabus,\u00a0<\/i>and<i>\u00a0The Dreadful Doctor Faust<\/i>. Recommended for adult readers.<\/p>\n<p>Contains:\u00a0 Gore, Graphic Violence, Adult situations, Adult Language<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by:\u00a0 Aaron Fletcher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Time Travel Steampunk.\u00a0 This is a fun read from K. H. 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