Review: Blood for Ink by L.L. Muir
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2013
Blood for Ink by L.L. Muir is set in the English Regency period.  Essentially it is a mystery which with small changes could have been set in other times.  The story deals with four young men of the Peerage who have been closely linked in friendship since their time at Eton and who call themselves The Four Kings. They have become aware of a gossip writer who calls herself The Scarlet Plumiere who has set herself the task of righting wrongs perpetrated on women of the Peerage. A false accusation by her about one of the young men sets the group out to hold a lottery to pick the man who will discover who she is and who will control her through marriage.  Her identity is fairly quickly known to them, but unknown to them is that there are dark forces at work which  will require them to become the protectors of the Plumiere .It is a novel plot, but I found the writing style somewhat confusing and equally confusing some assumptions about persons of the Peerage. For example, Beau Brummel was referred to as Lord Brummel, but so far as I can discover, he was never elevated to the Peerage and lived and died as plain Mr. Brummel.  The heroine is addressed as Miss Reynolds when her status as the daughter of an Earl would normally have had her addressed as Lady Olivia.  I do, however,  recommend the book for those who are more attuned to the plot than to writing style..