Even as a fan of Foxe, I want to be objective. When I find an indi-author who impresses me like this, I tend to gush. That's right, folks - Foxe is SELF PUBLISHED.Īre her books perfect? No. It also makes me want to tell people to go read it. I think what does it is a combination of the impeccable world building and the effortless writing style. Me!? Sad about not having a vamperic steampunk book to read? What has this world come to! My brain is all confused because Foxe has made me like vampires in my science fiction! I'm almost afraid to ask what she's going to do next. Now, I'm sad because I have no more to read. I found myself reading page after page after page, and ended up reading the book in one day of very solid reading. By the end of the prologue, I was sucker-punched into the story and hooked. I went into it with lowered expectations simply because of the vampiric slant.
I was mostly joking) I was, however, prepared to not like A Dark Heart. I think she could write a book about two werewolves hanging out on a space station with a 'Mars needs more women' trope storyline and I'd read it. Because of Foxe's writing style and talent, accepting the review request was a no-brainer. Then, Foxe sent me a copy of A Dark Heart - a book that focuses on a steampunk vampire. It was a genre bender - so in the end, I told my Scifi mind to shut the heck up and enjoy the ride. I liked what she did with the incorporation and blurring the lines between Steampunk, Science Fiction and Paranormal. My conflict arose because my science fiction mind was going "NO- NO- NO, No blood sucking paranormal vamps in science fiction!" But, Foxe had already endeared the character to me before it was revealed and her writing had sold me on a 5 star book. When my first venture into Steampunk, Prince of Hearts (also by Margaret Foxe) included a side character who was a twist on the vampire legend, I wasn't sure how I felt about it. I consider Steampunk to be a branch of Science Fiction. Luckily, there have been some recent books that are slowly turning the Genre around. Vampire Romance has become a laughable shade of what it once was when Vampires were monsters, which sucks (ha-ha), because I used to love the genre. I'm not even that much of a Vampires in paranormal romance fan, because let's be honest - sparkly Vampires crying about their lost humanity and the wet-blanket girl their dead heart has fallen for has flooded the market with shyte. The very thought of Vampires in Space makes me cringe. I was provided with an ARC in exchange for an honest review - and holy moo, did it ever change my mind about paranormal science fictionĭisclaimer: I don't like Werewolves, Ghosts or Vampires in my Science Fiction.
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