the Strangely beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
The albino beauty who has come to study at Victorian London’s Athens Academy will learn not only to deal with the ghosts that she can see, but her own part in the puzzling prophecy that threatens the known world.
The albino beauty who has come to study at Victorian London’s Athens Academy will learn not only to deal with the ghosts that she can see, but her own part in the puzzling prophecy that threatens the known world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780843962963 (0843962968)
ASIN: B008IXEXJA
Publish date: 2009
Publisher: Leisure Books
Pages no: 324
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Science Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Paranormal Romance,
Historical Romance,
Steampunk,
Ghosts,
Fiction,
Historical
The thing about tropes is…sometimes they work for us. The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, by Leanna Renee Hieber, is full of them—prophecies, unexplained magical forces, fated love match, etc.—but I was entertained. After reading Hiding in Plain Sight, I needed something fluffy to rea...
This book had a very slow and confusing start. I almost put in down and picked a different one. It's a bit too descriptive in places. Percy annoyed me at first. She was very meek and apologized too much. She does grow and gain in spine and confidence (and stops apologizing all the freaking time). I ...
The title is a misnomer. I would have titled this The Twistingly Tangential Tale of Miss Percy Parker instead. Good lord, how this story wandered.I'm going to be quoting a lot from this book in this review. The quotes are too priceless not to be used, and they give a pretty good impression of the en...
While I initially had some difficulty getting into this story, by the time I was a couple of chapters into it, I could not put the book down. Well, unfortunately, I did HAVE to, but I didn't WANT to. The title is so very appropriate, as well--this truly was a "strangely beautiful tale." There is no ...
So here's the deal, we spend the entirety of the book building up to this moment when the h, Ms Percy Parker, is announced as the one in the prophecy, only to, 50 pages (or less) from the end, have 5 of the 6 decide that no, it's this other female person who just conveniently manages to mold herself...
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