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4.54 AVERAGE
4.54 AVERAGE
This is an imaginative story. I actually got caught up in the story near the end. Sadly this ends unfinished so the next book is needed to continue the adventure. This story felt kinda slow to me for the first half. Luckily this has short chapters which helps the story move along at a quicker pace. The second half is when things speed up and get interesting. We meet a lot of new characters and the world is just different. I felt like Dorothy who landed in Oz trying to figure out the reasons and customs of the new realm.
Overall I struggled with the first half of the book. I kept plugging along and the second half kept me entertained. We end with a lot of unanswered questions.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Holy Cow! What an incredible book. Evaline, still mourning the loss of her mother, works for her father as his secretary but she dreams of working with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. She aspires to be a great detective and to use her skills and abilities as a witch to help solve cases. As far as she knows, Evaline is only a necromancer, meaning she can bring back the dead and she does just that during her adventure in the mirror world of London called Londinium. Evaline and her betrothed Delbert are whisked away to the mirror world to help find an artifact and stop Doctor Death from her reign of death and destruction before it is too late, and Death comes to proper London. While in Londinium, they come across the strangest and scariest of beings including witches and undead people. What will happen to them? Will they be able to return to London or forever be stuck in the mirror world? You must read this book! The characters are very well written and full of life and personality. The suspense builds up as the pages turn and I found myself unable to put the book down! I am so excited to read what happens in the next book as Evaline and Delbert continue on their adventure!
Death & Mirrors is the first book in this YA Gaslamp fantasy. SF’s unique retelling with a twist of the fairy tale Alice In Wonderland. It has it all with necromancers, mythical artifact, a bizarre stranger, a heinous criminal, magick, a budding detective and so much more in this adventure.
The plot is interesting and the characters are as unique as the tale. It was an intriguing read that lovers of Gaslamp fantasy will love.
Evaline imagines herself a bit of detective like Sherlock Holmes not only that she is also a necromancer. When she happens upon a mystery, she soon finds herself falling down the rabbit's hole straight in to an alternate world.