by Leanna Renee Hieber
Dorchester Publishing/Leisure Books
Date of Publication 8/25/09 (UK: 1 Sep)
Excerpt
Blurb
What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Considering how few of Queen Victoria’s Londoners knew of it, the great Romanesque fortress was dreadfully imposing, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met the powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadow, the Ripper and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie stood guard. She knew simply that she was different, haunted, with her snow-white hair, pearlescent skin and uncanny gifts. But this arched stone doorway offered a portal to a new life, an education far from the convent—and an invitation to an intimate yet dangerous dance at the threshold of life and death…
This reminds me of Marissa Doyle's Bewitching Season, even down to the name of the heroine. No twin here, though. This looks pretty good. The blurb is almost perfectly enticing, because right away, I am dissatisfied with it, and want to learn more. If the book were in front of me, I'd be reading pages. So I guess it's an effective blurb! Her website has lots of extras, all conveniently located on a page called Extras.
You can let me know of an upcoming debut here.
6 comments:
This one looks really good. I've seen it around the bloggersphere and each time I get a read of the blurb, I want to read the book even more.
~ Popin
This does sound like a fun one.
Weird. I could have sworn I posted a comment here yesterday. Anyway, this book sounds fantastic! And a few hours after I read this post yesterday, I found out that a friend of mine had read it and loved it. So now I have to read it.
Victorian Era fantasy! Yum.
The excerpts were enticing, too!
Just the title alone makes me want to read it!
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