This is the first book I read as a direct result of a Cannonball review, so thank you very very much to long_pig_tailor for that! The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter begins with the death of Mary Jekyll’s mother, and with a host of characters that you eventually meet breaking the fourth wall to add commentary to the story. With her mother’s death, Mary is left destitute and must dismiss all of her staff, excepting her housekeeper Ms. Poole who refuses to leave having […]

Okay, first review, maybe I stick with it this year. Imagine, if you will, that white European men of the 18th and 19th centuries were not good people. Imagine, further, and I know this might be difficult, that they also desired power and wealth and, you know, eternal life. As one does. And imagine, because I know how women are so highly represented in classical fiction, that white European men of the 18th and 19th centuries absolutely must see themselves as the point of their […]