GENRE: Historical Fiction
MY RATING: 4 stars
SYNOPSIS: It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. After humiliating an odious literary critic and surviving the resulting duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night in Highgate Cemetery, he unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death…
MY THOUGHTS: This was pretty interesting and never boring. I like Dr. Silas Garrette and his jars of children best of all. He's pretty unique and sadistic. I really don't see the point of main character Geoffrey's best friend Algernon being in here other than to help him fight off mobsters during one scene. I think the 'angel' Aurelia is pretty bland and found her relationship with Geoffrey to be very underdeveloped and rushed. Two kidnappings involving her were too much. I like the cast of mobsters and what a motley crew they were. The action involving them and Geffrey and Algernon was too over the top though.
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