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The Age Of Steam novels by Devon Monk are a series that combines Weird West and Steampunk, consisting thus far of Dead Iron and the forthcoming Tin Swift.

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Tropes featured in this work include:

• Anxiety Dreams: LeFel has them, about death.
• Back From the Dead: Jeb Lindson, twice already at the opening of the book.
• Baleful Polymorph: Wil
• Black Magic: Mae's always twists to this.
• The Blacksmith: the father of the kidnapped boy
• Blood Magic: LeFel uses it.
• Blow You Away: Madder brothers use it.
• Children Are Special: especially for dreaming.
• Cool Gate: LeFel' aim
• Cue the Sun: Mae takes it a good omen.
• Curse: Why werewolves, and why LeFel wants them.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Cedar.
• The Drifter: Cedar
• Door Step Baby: Rose's backstory
• The Exile: LeFel
• The Eyes Have It: some Strangwork mantics.
• The Fair Folk: LeFel
• A Friend in Need: Rose to Mae
• Good Samaritan: Cedar goes to hunt down a lost child despite the treatment he gets in the town.
• Green Thumb: Rose can hear plants talking.
• Human Sacrifice: Needed for the gate
• Involuntary Shapeshifter: Cedar
• Insubstantial Ingredients: Played with
• Magical Land: LeFel's aim
• Moses in the Bulrushes: Rose Small, by the device left with her, though not all is clear yet.
• Orphan's Plot Trinket: Rose's device.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: In fact, the two of them differ from each other.
• Power of Love: Why LeFel needs to kill Jeb.
• Revenge: Mae's motivation
• Rule of Three: LeFel tries to invoke this on Jeb
• Small Town Boredom: Rose wants out
• Vampire Invitation: Mae refuses this.
• White Magic: Mae's sisters.
• Windows to the Soul: Wil's eyes stay the same color even in wolf form.
• Witch Hunt: How LeFel intends to control the Mae.