- The Diabolical Miss Hyde
- Author: Viola Carr
- Series: Electric Empire Series, #1
- File Size: 1018 KB
- Print Length: 464 pages
- Publisher: Harper Voyager (February 10, 2015)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Rating: 4 1/2 Stars
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have expressed are my own. I am posting
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Book Description:
In an electric-powered Victorian London, Dr.
Eliza Jekyll is a crime scene investigator, hunting killers with inventive new
technological gadgets. Now, a new killer is splattering London in blood,
drugging beautiful women and slicing off their limbs. Catching The Slicer will
make Eliza’s career – or get her burned. Because Eliza has a dark secret. A
seductive second self, set free by her father’s forbidden magical elixir: wild,
impulsive Lizzie Hyde.When the Royal Society send their Enforcer, the mercurial Captain Lafayette, to prove she’s a sorcerer, Eliza must resist the elixir with all her power. But as the Slicer case draws her into London’s luminous magical underworld, Eliza will need all the help she can get. Even if it means getting close to Lafayette, who harbors an evil curse of his own. Even if it means risking everything and setting vengeful Lizzie free …
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My Thoughts:
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Make
sure you don’t skip a page just to get to the first chapter. Otherwise, you’ll miss something special that
the author has created.
My Thoughts:
As you start to read, the interesting part will be figuring out
who’s narrating the story – Ms. Carr has grabbed my attention. Eliza Jekyll has an interesting job for the
times and one I would never want. And
this is why I don’t know that this is a story you want to be eating while
reading. Some of the descriptions can
seem to be a little disturbing as to how accurate they sound. In a way it makes me think of what CSI would
be back in the day.
Captain Remy Lafayette is a great foil for Eliza. He makes her sit up and take notice. But he’s not everything that you see on the
surface. What I love about this author
is that nothing gets revealed until almost the very end. It leaves you with no choice but to get
comfortable, sit back, and relax because you are going to find that this book
is very hard to put down. If you’re in
my neck of the woods, and are getting snowed in, what a great choice of reading
material to have on hand when you can’t go anywhere.
I’ve seen several forms of the tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but
I think that this is my favorite. My
favorite actress to play Ms. Jekyll/Hyde would be Helen Bonham-Carter. I could also picture Tim Burton having a hand
in bringing this book to life. And if he
cast Helen then Johnny Depp would have to be there too. But I see him more as Hippocrates.
Steampunk is a fascinating genre.
It’s one where anything is possible but it’s done with a historical
perspective. Machines can have lives but
not like what’s being invented today.
Our author has made Eliza to be a very intelligent woman who just
happens to have another side to her. Yet
having all these gadgets doesn’t seem to faze her. The ending left me wanting
more – so I was very happy to see that another book titled Tenfold More Wicked will be coming out later this year.
Viola Carr Bio:
Viola Carr was born in Australia, but wandered
into darkest London one foggy October evening and never found her way out. She
now devours countless history books and dictates fantastical novels by
gaslight, accompanied by classical music and the snoring of her slumbering cat.
She loves history, and pops down to London’s many historical sites whenever she
gets the chance. She likes steampunk, and thought it would be cool to investigate
wacky crimes with crazy gadgets…just so long as her heroine was the creator of
said wacky gadgets: a tinkerer, edgy, with a dash of mad scientist. Readers can
follow her on twitter at @viola_carr and online at http://www.violacarr.com.
Links:
Website http://www.violacarr.com
Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/missviolacarr/
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