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Bookloving writer
Bookloving writer rated it 4 years ago
From Amazon’s book page:India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes emp...
Book Hoarders Anonymous
Book Hoarders Anonymous rated it 5 years ago
Interesting book. The h is a necromancer and she finds this out strictly by accident - her mom dies and she raises her. Since her father is a vicar, this does not go over well. The story starts with her in prison. She's been caught stealing. Some brute attacks her, someone intervenes and dies, she...
Blood Rose Books
Blood Rose Books rated it 5 years ago
C.J. Archer starts a new series off with a girl in hiding for her special ability to raise the dead: Fleet Foot Charlie has been living on the streets since her father threw her out 5 years ago, but tonight she was not a fleet footed as she should have been. In a cell with men who have horrible ide...
Evaine's Books, Books and More Books
Upon starting this book I was worried that it was going to fall into DNF land or at least 2 Star Land at the very least, but you know what? It surprised me! Yes, it has problems. The heroine is sometimes a little slow on the uptake, as my mom used to say and things would have gone much smoother ha...
Sprout Labyrinth Library
Sprout Labyrinth Library rated it 7 years ago
This is a pretty awesome mystery book as Emily the MC isn't a fainting violet and actually has agency in this romance/mystery. HOWever, the one she falls for isn't George the flesh and blood human, but Jacob. I hate Jacob and I really wish Emily wasn't in love with him. You see, Jacob is tall dark a...
Jennifer's Books
Jennifer's Books rated it 7 years ago
This just didn't quite work for me. The premise was really sound, and there were parts of it that I enjoyed. But there were also parts that employed tropes that I truly loathe including a female MC who had TSTL moments and the dreaded Big Misunderstanding. The book also ends rather abruptly at 82%...
TeaStitchRead
TeaStitchRead rated it 8 years ago
Romance Bingo - Gothic Romance Despite the clothing and overall image on the cover, this is a late-medieval romance about saving a marriage. Rose was smart and had a good sense of leadership and management. Thomas was contrite about his dumb actions six years ago, but his apologies seemed hollow u...
Nemo @ The Moonlight Library
Nemo @ The Moonlight Library rated it 8 years ago
This review was originally posted on Young Adult At Heart A strange little girl summoned an evil spirit into Jacob’s sister Adelaide, and it’s up to the only other spirit medium in London, Emily Chambers, a seventeen year old mixed-race middle class working girl, to stop him before he hurts someone....
Nemo @ The Moonlight Library
Nemo @ The Moonlight Library rated it 8 years ago
SUMMARYEmily Chambers is a seventeen year old orphaned spirit medium who lives with her older sister in Regency London. PLOTWhen Emily and her sister accidentally unleash a shapeshifting murderous demon from another dimension on London, the Administrators from the Waiting Area send a solid ghost ca...
MerissaArchaeolibrarian
MerissaArchaeolibrarian rated it 8 years ago
The story revolves around Emily, a 17-year old medium, who lives with her sister in Victorian England. During a seance, her sister (who runs them) holds an amulet, chants some words she doesn't understand, and releases a shape-shifting demon.The story is about finding out who, why, how etc with a da...
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