The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
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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 their friend and 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 the Empire?
In the final volume of the trilogy that Publishers Weekly called "a tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight" in a starred review, the women of the Athena Club will embrace their monstrous pasts to create their own destinies.
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Theodora Goss. (2019). The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl. S&S/Saga Press.
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- Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with 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 their friend and 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 the Empire?
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The monstrous ladies of the Athena Club have one last adventure in the final installment of Goss' (European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, 2018, etc.) trilogy. Mary Jekyll and the rest of the Athena Club, made up of women who've been experimented on by famed literary men like Drs. Jekyll, Frankenstein, and Moreau, have returned home from their European escapades. Ready for a break from adventuring, Mary is horrified to discover that both the kitchen maid, Alice, and Mary's friend (and perhaps more than friend) Sherlock Holmes have gone missing. The club goes to Sherlock's office in Baker Street to look for clues while alternating chapters from Alice's point of view reveal her upsetting predicament. As it turns out, the woman keeping her captive is actually her mother, who is a member of a sinister organization called the Order of the Golden Dawn. The two of them share the mesmerizing powers of the title, which they gained from, you guessed it, dangerous experiments performed by Alice's grandfather. They are able to manipulate what others see, including changing their own appearances, which will come in handy for the Golden Dawn's plan to take over England by kidnapping the queen and replacing her with Alice's mother in her mesmerizing disguise. As Alice tries to learn all she can about the group's schemes, her friends work just as hard to rescue her. But will they make it in time to save the queen as well? The first two books' problems are still present here, with too much exposition and largely pointless commentary from the characters themselves. But the tone is lighter and the prose shows marked improvement, making those issues far less noticeable. The villains are more compelling, the plot twists land well, and the literary-character mashups don't feel so forced. An uneven series ends on a high note.COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Goss wraps up her gaslamp fantasy adventure trilogy with a novel more political than personal. Mary Jekyll and her found family of the Athena Club return from their Continental deeds of derring-do, fatigued and anxious. Three of their circle who were left behind in London—Alice the housemaid, Dr. Watson, and Mr. Holmes—have gone missing, as have less-loved figures such as the reformatory director, Mrs. Raymond. Like Mary, the pace at the book’s outset is a bit sluggish and confused. A quarter of the book passes before it becomes clear that Alice and the others have been kidnapped as part of a nefarious plot that reaches the highest political strata of the British Empire. The “monstrous gentlewomen” of the Athena Club must rescue them and foil the scheme. Goss’s themes have moved well beyond the women’s deeply personal struggles with the patriarchy depicted in the first volume. By the time Professor Moriarty opines, “We must regulate our borders so that we no longer accept immigrants and refugees,” it’s apparent that the storytelling has shifted decisively away from character-driven exploration of identity. The characters remain delightful but develop relatively little. Topicality and tenacity, in the person of the self-effacing but determined Alice, bring the series satisfyingly home. Fans of the first two novels will find this one a solid capstone. Agent: Barry Gottlieb, Barry Gottlieb Literary.
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