The Twisted Tragedy of Miss Natalie Stewart(Magic Most Foul #2)
Publication: 1st November 2012
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 332
Genre: Fantasy/Historical Fiction
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
I'm coming for you.
The whispers haunt her dreams and fill her waking hours with dread. Something odd is happening. Something...unnatural.
Possession of the living. Resurrection of the dead. And Natalie Stewart is caught right in the middle. Jonathon, the one person she thought she could trust, has become a double agent for the dark side. But he plays the part so well, Natalie has to wonder just how much he's really acting.
She can't even see what it is she's fighting. But the cost of losing her heart, her sanity...her soul.
The whispers haunt her dreams and fill her waking hours with dread. Something odd is happening. Something...unnatural.
Possession of the living. Resurrection of the dead. And Natalie Stewart is caught right in the middle. Jonathon, the one person she thought she could trust, has become a double agent for the dark side. But he plays the part so well, Natalie has to wonder just how much he's really acting.
She can't even see what it is she's fighting. But the cost of losing her heart, her sanity...her soul.
My Thoughts...
So going into this book I was pretty excited, I loved the characters of Natalie and Jonathan 'Lord Denbury' in the previous book and I was interested to see where this book would take them on their journey to defeat the evil that we met in the first book 'Darker Still'.
This book starts off straight after the ending in the debut book in the series, Natalie and Jonathan are on a train to meet up with an old friend of his, when they arrive they discover that the Majesty Society who were in cahoots with the demon who actually imprisoned him in the painting are immersing themselves into his friends lives, they are also experimenting in 're-animation' of the dead, but they aren't exactly aware that the demon is no longer possessing Jonathan's body and so he acts the part to find out information as to what they are up to and becomes a double agent for both sides.
He plays the part so well that Natalie sometimes wonders whether it is an act, and with her prophetic dreams playing a part in all the madness, she knows something bad is coming!
As in the first book I loved how the story is told through Natalie's diary entries and letters, it's something different but really enjoyable as well.
Add in a couple of new characters to help in their fight: Rachel who was Natalie's best-friend in the asylum and who is a psychic and Reverend Blessing a friend of Mrs Northe and they have a well developed 'team' I guess you could call it.
And alas like all books in a series there is always something that happens at the end that makes you anxious to get your hands on the next book, and after the note I'm desperate for the next book.
I highly recommend this series to those who like gothic, dark fiction.
I give this 4/5.
Guest Post...
· Triple Talent: It’s no secret that bestselling author Leanna
acts, writes, and even combines the two to create a play. Leanna
describes what it’s like to be a working actress while also making a bestseller
book.
I wear many different hats. And I
don’t just mean cute little Victorian hats, though I do have quite a
collection. I’ve always been a Jack of All Trades and it’s my varying interests
that have kept me busy, employed in the arts and happy in always having a
project or two to work on. The trick to doing anything well is time and
discipline, it’s very hard to juggle theatrical pursuits and writing and
promoting your books full time. I have to pick and choose and shift focus.
While I was a full time professional actress on stage in various regional theatre
productions around the country, my writing took a back seat. Today my writing
is at the foreground and I do theatrical and/or film projects sporadically. The
ability to shift focus from one priority to another depending on deadlines is a
skill I’ve been trying to sharpen forever. The biggest challenge is
self-discipline of one’s own time. It’s something I struggle with day in and
day out. Storytelling is at the core of all my interests, and while I’m very
selective now about the stories I tell and the mediums I use to tell them, I’m
blessed to have several different avenues to pursue the stories that intrigue
me. One of the most fascinating ways that my worlds have blended is in adapting
my first novel into a musical theatre production with Broadway talent on board.
My time as an actress and brief stints as a playwright made it easier for the
production company behind the musical adaptation of The Strangely Beautiful
Tale of Miss Percy Parker to approach me to be on the collaboration team. I’m
uniquely suited as having experience in all these fields to weave a story
together in an entirely new medium, a show. And it’s that process of adaptation
and collaboration that then allows me to have fresh insights and new tricks to
make an engaging story come to life when I return to my novels, such as THE
TWISTED TRAGEDY OF MISS NATALIE STEWART.
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