![]() Run (er, fly? Inside a house?), don’t walk, to get this book. every little dagger and exploding teapot and backfiring rifle and iced scone) perfectly. The chemistry is superb, as are the action scenes - in fact, one of my favorite things about the Wisteria Society is the way the author is able to create such rat-a-tat dialogue between two characters as they’re in the midst of trying to stab each other. (What, that’s never happened to you guys? Pfft.) But luckily it doesn’t take long for Holton’s adventure-romance to whisk you away in the same fashion a charming, blonde assassin might on his flying townhome. Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance. ![]() ![]() Like, to the point where I googled if this was the second book in a series, hah. The kind of book for which the word rollicking was invented.New York Times Book Review. I was admittedly a bit lost when I first started this one - the world of this version of Victorian England is vastly different than what I was expecting (ex: the main characters are lady pirates whose ships are flying houses - yes, *flying* *houses*). So I’m gonna need you guys to envision if the movies Stardust and Pirates of the Caribbean had a baby, and then THAT baby fell in love with a book from the Bridgerton series, and then THEY had a baby: that’s basically the genetic make-up of The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton. ![]()
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