The Dead Isle vs The Iron Thorn (The Iron Codex #1): Which Should You Read?

The Dead Isle Sam Starbuck · 2009 ★★★★☆ 3.9 Moderate

The year is 1880, and Jack Baker is a student at Harvard University for Engineers. In this America, industry depends on "Creation" rather than machines, and engineers are train repairmen, not inventors like Jack. Even…

The Iron Thorn (The Iron Codex #1) Caitlin Kittredge · 2011 ★★★★☆ 3.7 Moderate

In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic to solve…