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your book stack and
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My choice this week is Phoenix Rising (A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel) by Pop Ballantine and Tee Morris. This was our Science Fiction Book Club selection for March. Everyone agreed it was a fun read.
Book Beginning:
"Wellington Thornhill Books, Esquire, had never heard an explosion that close before. Considering the ringing in his ears, he would most likely never hear another one like it again."
Page 56:
"Perhaps the worst was over. Perhaps she would actually make a fine assistant."
What Goodreads says:
Evil is
most assuredly afoot—and Britain’s fate rests in the hands of an alluring
renegade . . . and a librarian.
These
are dark days indeed in Victoria’s England. Londoners are vanishing, then
reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood
and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences—the Crown’s clandestine
organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling—will not allow its
agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however,
with her bulletproof corset and a disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to
let the matter rest . . . and she’s prepared to drag her timorous new partner,
Wellington Books, along with her into the perilous fray.
For a malevolent brotherhood is
operating in the deepening London shadows, intent upon the enslavement of all
Britons. And Books and Braun—he with his encyclopedic brain and she with her
remarkable devices—must get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plot . . .
or see England fall to the Phoenix!
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