Firelight (Darkest London, #1)

by Kristen Callihan

virus.

Glaring anachronism. The germ theory of disease was only just catching on, even if evidence had been mounting for decades. But there was much less an understanding of viruses. Dmitri Ivanovsky first found evidence of virusesin 1892, and this story is set in 1881.

She walks in beauty like the night; shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Oh, clumsy. One or the other, please. Or, preferably something less clichéd.