![]() ![]() These two characters are brilliantly crafted, and they instantly pull the reader in. He brings caution to Ruby’s bravado, and she pulls him out of the shadows. Guy has talents of his own, and he is looking for answers as to where they came from. With the ability to pull the thoughts right out of a murderer, she is a young vigilante, determined to make things right. Her gift and cunning take her from respectable society to back-alley bars, and from the best gatherings to the best poison. Ruby, the witty flapper who also reads minds, explodes off the page. ![]() This unique novel combines gangland Chicago of the late 1920s with young adult and paranormal fiction. They soon begin investigating a crime that is close to Ruby’s heart. When the two of them meet, sparks fly, and they become a powerful and gifted team. Guy has talents of another kind, and his brilliance and abilities just may uncover Ruby’s hidden life. When her abilities put men in her path who prey on and murder women, Ruby takes matters into her own hands. In 1928 Chicago, young Ruby is the daughter of the state’s attorney and popular at parties, but she also knows dangerous secrets-because Ruby is a mind reader. ![]() This is a wonderful historical paranormal fantasy that I reviewed for the August edition of Historical Novels Review, the magazine of The Historical Novel Society. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |