I forget -- have you read Scott Oppel? Airborne and its sequels? It's very much old school Boys Own adventure, but Steampunk-AU-cryptozoological, with a Hermione-esque girl lead. I enjoyed the first two, haven't read the third yet.
Really, what I want is an old-school Boys Own adventure like that with a female lead (and some updates on the racism/colonialism), and there don't seem to be a lot of them out there...
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Date: 2011-08-07 07:54 pm (UTC)Really, what I want is an old-school Boys Own adventure like that with a female lead (and some updates on the racism/colonialism), and there don't seem to be a lot of them out there...