The Fire in the Glass The Fire in the Glass

Publisher Description

A library of arcane mysteries. A band of outcasts with complicated powers. The shadow of war on the horizon. Enter the world of the London Charismatics.

1914. A killer stalks the gaslit streets of London, draining the city's mediums of blood. Lily Albright knows who will be next to die.

For as long as she can remember, Lily has been cursed with visions of the future that she can never change. When a murderer threatens someone she loves, she's determined to find a way to finally thwart fate—but she can't do it alone. To save a life, she must trust her most dangerous secret to the denizens of The Refuge, a hidden sanctuary for those who "know the impossible," from a boy who talks with birds to the reclusive Lord Strangford, whose black gloves conceal a power with the potential to upend all of Lily's carefully built defenses.

Alongside uncomfortable new allies, Lily follows the threads of a conspiracy that weaves through London in a trail of fire and blood, from a Bond Street gallery where an artist speaks from beyond the grave to a burned-out Southwark hospital haunted by the ghosts of a terrible atrocity—one that reaches all the way to Westminster, where the glittering halls of Parliament already whisper of war.

Unraveling it—and changing the future—will force her to face a past rife with betrayal… and embrace the gift she has spent her life trying to escape.

Because power always comes with a price.

Pick up The Fire in the Glass and fall into a riveting fantasy series where history dances with dark, strange magic.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2020
April 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
632
Pages
PUBLISHER
Jacquelyn Benson
SELLER
Draft2Digital, LLC
SIZE
2.8
MB

Customer Reviews

clover all ,

Love it

This was so different. I loved it. Sometimes it got a little too wordy but don’t let that deter you.

Seriously All Taken? ,

Decent read

Occasionally overly aggressive with the descriptors and didn’t really nail the historical setting, but not so much that it made it hard to read. My main complaint about the book is the mistaken use of “peel” instead of “peal” TWICE. Once could be a legitimate error. Twice means that someone’s editor and beta-readers were sleeping on the job. There was also some confusing business where they refer to an antagonist as “the doctor” who is not one during a whole scene.

copper9lives ,

Twists and turns and complex characters

Utterly surprising at every turn, with excellent storytelling and characters as complex and complicated as in real life. Ms Benson is a master of her craft, and the Charismatics series is utterly compelling, witnessing her wonderful characters grow into their own power and capability.

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