A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay…Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction – until a gruesome murder during her best friend’s engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist’s knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation.
Except Hannah discovers her role is to … Hannah discovers her role is to apologise in the wake of the rude and disgraced man tasked with finding the murderer. The obnoxious Viscount Wycliff thinks to employ Hannah purely as a front to satisfy Whitehall, but she’ll have none of that.
The two must work together to find the murderer before the season is ruined. But the viscount is about to meet his greatest challenge, and it’s not a member of the ton with a hankering for brains.
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I enjoyed the book. It’s not the world’s best mystery but I enjoy the time period and the subject. It would make a fun TV show. I already purchased the next in the series
‘A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay…
Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction – until a gruesome murder during her best friend’s engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist’s knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation.
Except Hannah discovers her role is to apologise in the wake of the rude and disgraced man tasked with finding the murderer. The obnoxious Viscount Wycliff thinks to employ Hannah purely as a front to satisfy Whitehall, but she’ll have none of that.
The two must work together to find the murderer before the season is ruined. But the viscount is about to meet his greatest challenge, and it’s not a member of the ton with a hankering for brains.’
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Manners and Monsters is the first book in Tilly Wallace’s Manners and Monsters series, which is a historical mystery series set in a London in which supernatural and magical beings co-exist within society.
This is the first book by this author that I have read and I picked up a copy of it forever ago when it was on sale. I have been meaning to read it for some time now, but I was anxious it wouldn’t live up to my high hopes(as my favorite kind of book blends historical mystery and the paranormal) and so it kept falling further back on my TBR. But in fact, I’m glad that I got around to reading it now because I loved it. I am really intruiged by the blending of the realistic and the paranormal in the world of this series. Plus there is a light tone of humor woven in that made the reading that much more amusing and enjoyable.
My one complaint, which realy bothered me for maybe the first half of the book, was that the author is very repetitive in explaining how the noblewomen of London became infected and turned to zombies. I understood why she was doing it, she was gradually giving more and more detail to the situation so as not to give it all away at once, but she started back at square one whenever she would reintroduce the background information before elaborating on it. I felt myself sigh by about this fifth time the tainted face powder was explained once again. But once the story really got underway, this issue became less and less or a problema dn so I can make my peace with it. I will definitely be reading more of the series and hope that the repetitive rehashing of background information will be less of an issue as the series goes forward.
Love this series! The worldbuilding is familiar but still unique, with some interesting twists on characters and how magic works. I’ve reread more than once because it’s that fun. Plus, undead creepers and eating brains!
I normally don’t listen or read this type of book – but I loved it! This fantasy book is great for Jane Austen fans.
A bit nauseating. The trend for zombies is one that doesn’t interest me. Several movies and now this book have tricked this hapless viewer reader into participating in this gruesome genre. A couple of antacid and a Georgette Heyer reread, and I was okay. But I’m not going back.
This is a very riveting read with great characters and a story/plot that kept me guessing. Lots of twists to the end. This is the first time I have read anything by this author but I am looking forward to more from her especially in this series.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.