Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
2020 • 464 pages
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Ratings28
Average rating4
Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice—and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.
Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished—and so has Mary's employer Sherlock Holmes!
As they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that Alice and Sherlock’s kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends—and save England? Find out in the final installment of the fantastic and memorable Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series.
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3 primary booksThe Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Theodora Goss.
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Acho que demorei outubro inteiro e esse começo de mês pra ouvir esse audiobook (a data abauxo é um chute, só a finalização está correta)
Meu pai.
No Cap 04 pela primeira vez na vida concordo com Diana: QUEM EM SÃ CONSCIÊNCIA QUER SER IGUAL A MARY?
Essa é a protagonista mais fraca e sem graça já escrita por qualquer um.
Ela não tem nem o mais leve dos relances do Holmes. Ela se esforça demais pra ser como ele, e no final não é ninguém.
É forçado.
Sem contar o romance que não tem, né?
Super forçadooooo.
Percebam que ela não serve pra nada. Nem o plano que ela fez. Porque foi inútil.
E lembrando: todas as meninas (até Diana insuportável) são mais interessantes que Mary.
Teve muitas e muitas e muitas coisas (urgh) erradas porque a ideia era tão boa. Com personagens marcantes. Icônicos. E tudo tão mal executado (?).
Dorian Gray (oh god) como par romântico de Justine. Oh God. Oh God. Justine merecia mais.
A autora escreve bem. Esse foi o volume melhor desenvolvido, a narrativa foi a mais envolvente até o momento.
A narradora fez milagres.
Mas não tem jeito. Não sei sequer qual é a faixa etária que essa autora escolheu para seu público.
O melhor foi o final. Não por ter acabado. Mas por ter realmente mostrado um relance do que o grupo poderia ser. Uma fraternidade.
Mas...
Urgh.
Ties up some strings from the previous books, but I found the transitions pretty clunky and jarring. It was definitely much slower and I had a hard time keeping interest through the first half. I did listen to the audiobook - maybe a physical read would be better.
I love this series, great characters smart writing, and all the genre mashups.
Where the first two books in this trilogy were based around Frankenstein andDracula, this last one is built around two lesser-known works of gothic literature: Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan and Bram Stoker's The Jewel of the Seven Stars. Here, the lack of familiarity with the originals may leave something out. I've not read either, and could easily follow the story, but there was none of the fun of seeing how the characters in the original novels were being reinterpreted that the first two volumes had.
The first half of the book is rather leisurely, as the villains hatch their plans and our heroes have little initial success in tracking them down. Indeed, at one point, there are two consecutive chapters consisting almost entirely of exposition, albeit from two characters with opposing viewpoints of the events concerned. The second half, as the fate of the British Empire hangs in the balance, is rather more dramatic, with noticeably stronger supernatural elements than the previous two books included.
The title character, who had a minor role in the previous books, does have much more to do here, and it does make for a nice change of perspective. Nonetheless, by the end of the book, the cast is perhaps growing a little large and it made sense to end the story where it does. Overall, this isn't quite as much fun as the rest of the trilogy, but it's still entertaining enough to nudge into four-star territory and anyone who enjoyed the first two should find plenty to like here, too.
