Hmm I think after this book I will stop listing to this series for a while.
This doesn't mean that these books are bad. No they are not. They are enjoyable actually. Just not all the books after each other.

For a few reasons:
- 'Exotic' Nell. I do get why she was called exotic, for her time and the place she lived, she simply was. Although I vaguely remember some character saying that India was a part of the British Empire now, so get over it (or something like that). So in the end this didn't bugged me that much. Although I'm a bit weary for her in her own book. Called exotic, by what you perceive as your fellow countrymen, can be exhausting.

- 'Tortured' souls (aka only the men). Yeah I do get where they came from but in a binge-listening sessie it is a bit much. At the end I just wanted to scream at all the self pitying...

- This is by far my biggest reason to take a break.
The myth of the Virgin: the Hymen.
*sigh* I can say so much about this but...well I'm a bit tired and just left wondering...Where was the damn thing when I was bleeding every month? Serious if a penis has to 'break' it, why can't it stop blood? Is it magic? Can it think for itself?

So yeah I really don't like virgins with magical hymens. And I really don't like the idea that woman have to feel pain/bleed/feeling discomfort the first time...

I think it's rude to think that woman can't feel pleasure without pain. Dude.

I feel a rant coming on so I will stop here.
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This is the fourth story in the Gaslight Chronicles and the second full length book. This book follows Wink, one of the orphans from the first book in this series. This is what I thought this series was going to be when I finished book 1. I loved following Wink and her adventures and watching her and Liam work together.

I listened to this on audiobook and the audiobook was very well narrated. All the books in this series have had excellent narration.

This book does draw in a lot of characters both from book 1 and the interem novellas. I do wish however that the novellas had been labeled as just that (novella additions to supplement the series) rather than separate books.

This makes a great second book to the series. I enjoyed it a lot. The characters are well done, I loved the mystery around the missing people and the mechanical men. Mostly I just loved getting to read about the Hadrian family again.

Overall this book was good enough the keep me slogging through the mediocre novellas to get to the next full length third book. I really love reading about the Hadrian family and hope future novels in this series follow those children as they find their place in life and find their perfect match. ( )

Normally, I don't read this genre, but I was captivated with Wink. With her street rats, they were adopted by royalty. Wink had a crush on inspector Liam McCullogh since she was taken in by her new parents buy he still saw her as a child! At twenty-four she was a whiz at fixing any kind of machine. I liked that Liam fought his desire for Wink because he thought he wasn't good enough for her and he even schooled Connor on how to woo her but Wink only thought of him as a brother. In less than three months over twenty people went missing. Now the two fought against their desires and worked together to find the missing. Could a shifter and a human love each other? ( )

Moonlight and Mechanicals is the 4th book in the Gaslight Chronicles Series and features the Hadrian family once again. Wink, who is our protagonist, is now a grown woman, but still independent-minded and a genius mechanical engineer. The Steampunk touches in this series are very clever, as is the London backdrop. The extraordinary Hadrian family and friends consist of various paranormal types and contrast nicely with polite human Society.

The plot was a bit plodding and the mystery drawn out until the last third of the book. The author spends a good bit of time resolving the romance between Wink and Liam. Perhaps I'm finding the author's work is turning slightly stale at this point in the series as it just didn't fill me with as much delight as the first couple of books.

I suppose I will continue with the series in future, but I won't rush right onto the next book. ( )

**3.5**
The best in the series fo far.
This is a romance after all, but it has more actual plot than the previous books. Liam is channeling Cyrano de Bergerac trying to get Connor to marry Wink since he is convinced that he is too violent and not good enough for her. Anyone who has read previous books know that when Wink wants something, she isn't shy to get that herself.
There are some minor things which aren't resolved: Wink never found out that the mechanical toys, presents and a visit to carneval were Liam's ideas. Next, Jamie had a vision of Connor and a beautiful woman in his arms, but nobody except Liam actually talked to Connor about his love life. Still, those are minor issues. ( )