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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
Her Ladyship's Curse begins the story of Charmian (Kit), a young woman living in an alternate United States that lost the Revolutionary War to Great Britain. Magic, ghosts, curses, and steampunk technology coexist ... except Kit doesn't believe in magic. She has spent the last few years in the city of Rumsen working as a private investigator, resolving clients' problems by finding mundane motives and causes of curses, disappearing and reappearing boxes, and other magical occurrences. This time, Lady Diana Walsh has asked her to dispell a curse that carves hateful words into the lady's flesh while she sleeps. In the course of the investigation, she runs into her longtime nemesis, a deathmage named Lucien Dredmore, who is determined to have Kit. She receives help from an old family friend, now the Chief Detective Inspector of the police, Thomas Doyle.
In a world where wives are considered their husbands' chattel, and women have no rights outside of working for a living, Kit skirts the attempts of men to control, guide, and own her, fiercely holding to her own independence while solving the mystery of the curse and unraveling a political and magical conspiracy that lies at the heart of the mystery. Fearless, determined, and witty, she is a strong and delightful heroine.
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In a world where wives are considered their husbands' chattel, and women have no rights outside of working for a living, Kit skirts the attempts of men to control, guide, and own her, fiercely holding to her own independence while solving the mystery of the curse and unraveling a political and magical conspiracy that lies at the heart of the mystery. Fearless, determined, and witty, she is a strong and delightful heroine.
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This novella is set in an alt America that lost the Revolutionary War and uses magic and steam tech. Kit doesn't believe in magic since it never seems to work around her. This puts her at odds with almost the rest of the world. As she is investigating a case of magical harassment she crosses paths with a childhood friend that works for the police and a deathmage that is very interested in her. The world building is very interesting to me and the introduction of the friends that help her out is very neat but the potential good guy/ bad boy romance triangle doesn't appeal to me that much. I'll read the next one because I want more of the setting and plot.
Digital copy to review provided by the publisher through Edelweiss
Digital copy to review provided by the publisher through Edelweiss