Viking Books for Young Readers
Featuring: Lady Helen Wrexhall; Lord Carlston
496 pages ISBN: 0670785474 EAN: 9780670785476 Kindle: B014QKIFFQ Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Lady Helen is readying for her societal debut when she
learns a maid has gone missing. She is determined to find
the maid, but is unprepared for the world it leads her
towards. A world, as it turns out, she was meant to be
part of all along. Upon meeting Lord Carlston, a man with a
ruined reputation, she learns about demons they both have
the ability to destroy. Lady Helen soon finds herself torn
between the world she has always known, and an obligation
to
join a new world and protect humankind from an evil only
beginning to rise.
THE DARK DAYS CLUB starts Alison Goodman's Lady
Helen
series. The story is a compelling one combining regency era
romance with the dark and supernatural. Helen's story
starts
much like any regency romance does. She's making her debut
into society, and thinking about escaping her uncle's
household with an advantageous marriage. Then Goodman
throws
in a dangerous, handsome, and mysterious lord, and the
supernatural world is revealed to the reader. Helen is
intelligent, funny, and is often torn between how she
should
behave and how she wants to. She doesn't always follow the
societal rules of her time, but her rebellions are small,
and this makes for a believable heroine set in the
nineteenth-century. Lord Carlston has a dark and dangerous
past, but he shows true kindness to Helen, and readers will
be pleased to find he does have a moral compass. The
tension
between the two is palpable, but a romance never
flourishes,
at least not in book one.
The settings in THE DARK DAYS CLUB are both romantic and
haunting. Goodman combines these elements much like she
does
in her plot to remind the reader they are in the romantic
regency era, but are also reading about unnatural ghouls
that are paranormal. The gardens and the poverty ridden
neighborhoods Carlston takes Helen to are beautifully
detailed, and the smells of the London streets will have
readers wrinkling their noses in disgust. Goodman has
clearly done a lot of research on the regency era, and I
appreciate the historical accuracy throughout the story.
Though readers may find THE DARK DAYS CLUB to be have a
slow
start, when the pace begins to pick up it never stops. THE
DARK DAYS CLUB turned into a page-turning demon hunt with
fantastic characters that ended all too soon.
New York Times bestseller Alison Goodman's eagerly awaited
new novel -- a Regency adventure starring a stylish and
intrepid demon-hunter!
Helen must make a choice: Save her reputation, or save the
world.
London, 1812. Eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall is on
the eve of her debut presentation at the royal court of
George III. Her life should revolve around gowns, dancing,
and securing a suitable marriage. Instead, when one of her
family’s maids disappears, she is drawn into the shadows of
Regency London.
There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few able to stop
the perpetrators: a cabal of demons that has infiltrated
all
levels of society. Carlston is not a man she should be
anywhere near, especially with the taint of scandal that
surrounds him. Yet he offers her help and the possibility
of
finally discovering the truth about the mysterious deaths
of
her parents.
Soon the two of them are investigating a terrifying
conspiracy that threatens to plunge the newly Enlightened
world back into darkness. But can Helen trust a man whose
own life is built on lies? And does she have the strength
to
face the dangers of this hidden world and her family’s
legacy?
Set in the glittering social world of the Regency
upper-crust, the Dark Days Club is a supernatural adventure
that introduces New York Times best-selling author Alison
Goodman’s Lady Helen Wrexhall—another heroine whom, like
Eona, readers can take to their hearts.
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