European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
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Mary Jekyll's life has been peaceful since she helped Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the Whitechapel Murders. Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, Justine Frankenstein, and Mary's sister Diana Hyde have settled into the Jekyll household in London, and although they sometimes quarrel, the members of the Athena Club get along as well as any five young women with very different personalities. At least they can always rely on Mrs. Poole.
But when Mary receives a telegram that Lucinda Van Helsing has been kidnapped, the Athena Club must travel to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to rescue yet another young woman who has been subjected to horrific experimentation. Where is Lucinda, and what has Professor Van Helsing been doing to his daughter? Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, and Justine reach her in time?
Racing against the clock to save Lucinda from certain doom, the Athena Club embarks on a madcap journey across Europe. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest, Mary and her friends must make new allies, face old enemies, and finally confront the fearsome, secretive Alchemical Society. It's time for these monstrous gentlewomen to overcome the past and create their own destinies.
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Theodora Goss. (2018). European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman. S&S/Saga Press.
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Mary Jekyll's life has been peaceful since she helped Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the Whitechapel Murders. Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, Justine Frankenstein, and Mary's sister Diana Hyde have settled into the Jekyll household in London, and although they sometimes quarrel, the members of the Athena Club get along as well as any five young women with very different personalities. At least they can always rely on Mrs. Poole.
But when Mary receives a telegram that Lucinda Van Helsing has been kidnapped, the Athena Club must travel to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to rescue yet another young woman who has been subjected to horrific experimentation. Where is Lucinda, and what has Professor Van Helsing been doing to his daughter? Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, and Justine reach her in time?
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Mary Jekyll and her crew of "monstrous gentlewomen" are back in the second installment of Goss' (The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, 2017) gothic mashup series.We rejoin our heroines three months after the conclusion of their last adventure. The members of the newly formed Athena Club--all daughters of infamous scientists from literature--are living together in Mary's house while Mary earns a living assisting Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Mary receives a mysterious telegram from Lucinda Van Helsing, who claims Mary's former governess, Mina Murray, is a mutual friend. Lucinda writes that she is the daughter of none other than professor Abraham Van Helsing (from Dracula), who has subjected her to "certain experiments" that have put her in danger. Locked away in an asylum, she asks Mary and company to rescue her. Naturally, a cross-continental caper to rescue Lucinda ensues, with more cameos from Dracula and other classics. And at more than 700 pages, there is plenty of room for dealings with the nefarious Société des Alchimistes, of which professor Van Helsing, unsurprisingly, is a member. The most compelling threads involve Mary's struggle to reconcile some uncomfortable truths about the people she thought she could trust, and, as with the first book, it's tremendous fun to see all these characters grouped together. But Goss' frustrating choice to have the characters comment on the book as it's being written is still distracting and adds nothing to the story, which is rather overwritten. Worse still, the characters lack depth, functioning mostly as references to the stories they come from.A fizzy adventure for lovers of the genre, but the execution could have been much better.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Goss’s The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, an exuberant, intelligent reimagining of sensational Victorian fiction, was eminently satisfying but dangled more loose threads than a housekeeper’s mending basket; Goss makes good with this double-decker follow-up and more promised to come. The “monstrous” daughters of a gaggle of notorious experimenters—Mary Jekyll and Diana Hyde, Beatrice Rappacini, Catherine Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein—have banded together as the Athena Club, dedicated to the independence of its membership and the destruction of their fathers’ nefarious schemes. The core of those schemes is the Société des Alchimistes, scientists who scorn the ethical norms of their peers. Adventure sparks when Mary receives a desperate letter from Lucinda Van Helsing: “I am... the subject of certain experiments carried out by my father.” Justine joins Mary to spearhead a rescue, and before long the entire crew are chasing from London to Vienna to Budapest on the ever-expanding quest. The series concept and execution continue to be terrific fun, but the book’s girth is unnecessarily daunting, as it’s hard to sustain a headlong rush for the length of a marathon course. Agent: Barry Goldblatt, Barry Goldblatt Literary.
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