These Vicious Masks

Look, guys. I am absolutely done with books set in the Victorian era, especially if they have love triangles where the heroine chooses the brooding, sulky dude instead of the smart & witty one.

Also, I swear to god, if I have to read one more book about a Classic White Feminist™ who can't stop talking about how terribly boring balls are & how much she despises arranged marriages, I will throw myself off a cliff.

I ran across this book the other day and just knew I was going to pick it up! First, because that cover is awesome, and second because it is billed as...

Jane Austen meets X-Men

So really, I had no choice but ti buy it!



This was a thoroughly delightful read! The plot was engaging and kept me interested. The characters, both main, and secondary were well written, and intriguing. Evelyn was funny, and feisty. Sebastian was broody, and mysterious. Nicholas was charming and also mysterious.

This book is set in 1882 London, and Rose, Evelyn's sister has gone missing. Evelyn leaves home and with the help of Mr. Kent (Nicolas) and Sebastian Braddock, she sets about trying to find out what happened to her. Of course during all this she discovers she and others around her have these secret supernatural powers.

Overall I really enjoyed this one. My only small complaint was the ending. I assume that there will be a book two, but I was hoping for more of a resolution with the romance, slight love triangle, plot but I have my fingers crossed I will get that closure in the next book (if there indeed is one)

Just read this is going to be a trilogy!!

Meh. Clever, stylish concept and no lack of action, but by 20% through, the two-dimensional characters eroded my willingness to put up with narrative weakness. Is the story missing sentences? The sentences that would have set up major character qualities or plot events? Characters will do things that haven't been set up in the plot (let's check out the inn, randomly–ah! we've discovered something to advance the plot! but, why di we go to the inn? because..a deus came out of the machina of the author's mind and nudged us there? Um...). Not impressed. A shame.