As a rollicking adventure, romping across 1890s Europe to thwart exotic bad guys with the help of powerful, competent women who live locally in Vienna and Budapest and have extraordinary resources at their command, this succeeds very well. There's lots of action and derring-do, all of which is ver...
A clever, fun book that does interesting things with form, provides a ripping yarn starring strong women and evil men and does everything it can to subvert the Patriarchical view of the world. It requires a little patience at the beginning as the reader works out what is going on and how it's being ...
This book was sort of adorable. The main character is Mary Jekyll, daughter of Dr. Jekyll. Over the course of the book she goes broke, learns her father's secrets, teams up with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, saves the life of Justine Frankenstein and solves the Ripper murders. The Strange Case o...
This book throws a mixture of literary classics at you with quite the unusual twist. We go on a murder mystery adventure with Sherlock Holmes, Watson (which sold me on this book right from the start), and Dr. Jekyll's daughter Mary, who stumbles upon Diana the daughter of Hyde, who may or may not be...
I had a hard time putting this down. Not exactly action packed, but compelling in a way that made for a few late nights where I needed to see what would happen next. The second book I've read this year structured so that the "author" is one of the protagonists. Though in this case, one not met unt...
3.75 starsShort, short story - 30 pages. This is a twist on a fairy tale set in Europe before WWII, with a young servant with her head in the clouds, and a mysterious woman hellbent on revenge. Engaging read despite the short length.
Standout stories in this collection are: Valente's Badgirl, The Deadman, And the Wheel of Fortune, which I initially thought ended poorly but has continued to haunt me long after I finished the story. Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar, which takes two fairy tales and combines them into an ...
Like most other readers, I was drawn to this little book by the format: an accordion book with the same story from two different perspectives printed on either side of the pages, so that you can start from either direction and get a different version. How cool is that? Answer: very cool. The story...
Lessons with Miss Grey - The last in the book, and a really good one. We have two sets of reoccurring characters, Miss Grey who appeared in two other stories in this collection and Rosa and Emma who appeared in The Wings of Meister Wilhelm. I really liked this one a lot, and it was a good story to e...
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