Review: Beaten but not defeated.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
Cherry St Croix inhabits a bleak space in this novel. Once more tied to the Menagerie and the Veil, and lost in an addiction to opium that dulls the pain of her multiple losses, she struggles to find and kill the man who murdered her husband and to pay off her debts to the Veil by continuing her role as a Collector. To say more the the narrative would be spoiler after spoiler. Cooper writes as beautifully as ever. Dirty, fog ridden London in this parallel reality is beautifully rendered. Plot twists abound and before the book ends Cherry will be as isolated and humiliated more than could have imagined.Much of the content is adult in nature, even if explicit sexual encounters are limited. If it were a film I'd give it an M rating.