Alice Payne Arrives by Kate HeartfieldMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The summary starts out as something of a button-pusher--lesbian check, steampunk check, women of color check. The blurbs definitely read that way. But the book does well at lifting up and affirming the perspective Alice brings, and by the end of the book I was seeing something new in time travel. The romance was pretty standard issue, but it drove the plot OK. It's really a good setup for the next book. It's nominated for the Nebula as a novella--in a good year it should contend but maybe not win.
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