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The Darkling Bride, by Laura Andersen. 4 stars
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FYI Amy: It is pronounced Care-egh (at least this is how my Irish friend pronounces it).This is on my TBR-glad to see you liked it!
The story is about a castle with a myth - the myth of the darkling bride. Two unsolved cases, one from the recent past, and one from 1882 loom large, as a cast of characters return to the castle to learn its secrets. The hero is the Viscount Gallagher, the dreamy blue eyed Aiden, who lost his parents at age 10. Police officer and art and antiquities theft specialist (naturally) seeks to understand his dark and tragic past. The heroine has a name I cannot pronounce in my mind, which made me less connected to her. It's Carragh Ryan, who naturally is running away from her past and is called to the castle also in search of solving its mystery. There is a drunken sister, a regal, yet slightly shady old aunt. A skanky husband, and two nieces. There are house servants who never really appear in the book at all, who seem to live in the shadows. Constant storms make the house power fail regularly, reception was never really all that good to begin with, but the lack of electricity makes the story that much eerier and adds to the general castle-mystery mood. There is a young female inspector, also who has an unpronounceable name. I won't even try. The rest of the characters come from the stories of the past. Which naturally were enveloping. Its part ghost story, part mystery, part mythology. i enjoyed it. Some things didn't hang together, but I find if you take apart any book too much you enjoy it. If I thought too deeply about this one, it would fall apart. So instead, I am choosing the aura of the shadows and its spell, and going to simply say I enjoyed the ride.