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The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl

Auteur(s): Theodora Goss
Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
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 Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.

Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll, and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished—and so has their friend and employer Sherlock Holmes!

As they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that Alice and Sherlock’s kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends—and the Empire?

In the final volume of the trilogy that Publishers Weekly called “a tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight” in a starred review, the women of the Athena Club will embrace their monstrous pasts to create their own destinies. Détective Fantastique Femmes détectives Fiction Fiction féminine Historique Roman policier Classiques Disparition Sherlock Holmes Mythologie Paranormal Intéressant Mythologie grecque Grèce antique Redevances

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"Narrator Kate Reading's intrepid delivery highlights the Athena Club's intelligence and tenacity as they race to save kidnapped friends—and the world. In this third adventure of Goss's supernatural historical series, brilliant young women with unique powers spring into action when their friends, Alice and Sherlock Holmes, are abducted in a sinister plot. Reading's varied pacing balances the perilous adventure and humor in Goss's storytelling, in which the action is frequently interrupted by comments from club members. Reading's characterizations evoke the humanity of challenging characters and illuminate the shared history and strong bonds between the friends. New fans of this series might enjoy this as a stand-alone, while returning listeners will be delighted by the ongoing exploits."
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Such an amazing story with dynamic characters. A very interesting reimagining of a great literary genre.

Excellent, as expected

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I read a lot of really good books, but the warm smile I had after finishing this series was something special. Highly recommended.

I couldn't have imagined loving it as much as I did

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Look, I'm just not the target audience, here. But then, who is? I honestly can't tell. It's like, 90% early YA, 10% adult general fiction, and sometimes that works, but this time... well, it didn't work for me, anyway.
I hate, hate, HATE the Sherlock Holmes romance. So much. So, so much. First, how old is he? Because the protagonist was 19 in the first book, and since only 6 months has passed, she's at most 20. And he's gotta be in his 40s. And I realize big age gaps were fairly commonplace, but... really? I know everyone is picturing Benedict Cumberbatch, like, ooh, so dreamy (I don't get it- he literally looks like a weasel. And yes, weasels are cute, but weasel features on a human? No.) but come on. He was a misogynistic jerk with a penchant for opiates and zero personality. What a catch for a 19 year old girl! It reads like fan fiction. Holmes, in the Conan Doyle stories, never showed any interest in women. Maybe that's why the character has proven so irresistible?
That's the other thing. The way the protagonists are written, their ages are really hard to track. For example, Alice is 13, but she acts like she's much older. And Catherine is written like a woman in her 30s? I think part of the problem is that they're not particularly well-developed or nuanced. They each have one character trait. The housekeeper is stalwart, Mary is a bore, Diana is impossibly bratty, Justine is philosophical, Beatrice is gorgeous and Catherine is... a puma. Yeah, that got old, fast. We get it.
And my complaints about the previous titles stand. It is so unsubtle. The values the story imparts are lobbed at you like a pie in the face. Again, I get it, already, smash the patriarchy, racism is bad, women are the future... It was just so ham-fisted that I felt like my intelligence was being insulted a little bit.
I thought it was sort of fun the first time, but it didn't hold up to a second read.
Still, 3 stars for the concept, and the Alice plot (despite Moriarty) was actually pretty cool.

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