Chapter One Hundred Ninety-Four: Boneshaker

I don't read a lot of steampunk, so I don't have much to judge it by, but I really enjoyed Cherie Priest's Boneshaker.  Set in an alternate-history Seattle circa 1880, the premise is that our heroine's late husband had been a mad scientist who had destroyed much of Seattle and unleashed a noxious gas that turns humans into zombies--perfectly and gruesomely referred to as "rotters."  Sixteen years later, Briar is left with a wayward son and a ruined reputation, and when her son ventures into the desolate Seattle to try to learn more about his shadowed past, Briar has to follow him to have any hope of rescuing him alive.  With air pirates, undead, a creative setting and a really kickass heroine, Boneshaker offers a gripping adventure story that, if you're at all like me, will keep you interested until the final page.