Saturday 24 September 2016

Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman

It’s been a long time since I’ve finished a book and felt the need to read it again immediately, but with this Regency-romance-meets-supernatural-thriller, I was in do-not-disturb heaven from the first page. 

When Lady Helen meets Lord Carlston, a distant relative of dubious character, she is drawn to his dark and disturbing world.  In a society where every propriety must be observed, will Helen risk her tenuous reputation to join Lord Carlston in the battle against evil, or will she deny her calling and turn her back on The Dark Days Club?

This book is chock full of delicious conflict, and not just the good vs evil variety.  I simply cannot wait a full four months until the Dark Days Pact comes out in January to enter such an exciting and vividly detailed historical world again.  Hence the reason I feel the need – the need to re-read.

‘I had not thought to find a fellow rationalist in you, Lady Helen.’

Perhaps it was the pulse that still whispered through her blood, or the unexpected warmth in his manner, but she found herself saying, ‘I rather think, Lord Carlston, that you had not thought to find any thought in me at all.’ – Alison Goodman, Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club