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Really enjoyed it. Love the alternate history types of books, always intriguing. Great characters.
Soulless Alexia Tarabotti is witty, intelligent and a spinster. Despite her Italian ancestry, Alexia is born of both elite society and the local preternatural community and excluded from but she's excluded from it because of her sex and breeding. Relegated to 'the shelf' instead of attending her debut, at 25, Alexia is odd woman out whether at home, at a ball or traipsing through the local supernatural haunts.
At the latest ball to serve sub-standard fare, Alexia retires to be alone and is accos ...more
At the latest ball to serve sub-standard fare, Alexia retires to be alone and is accos ...more
It started out really slow to me. Around the middle it picked up. Then I didn't want to put it down. Alexia is a great character. Definitely going to read the rest of the series.
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