

Title: The Nightshade Cabal
Author: Chris Patrick Carolan
Page count: 292
Published: February 25th, 2020
Publisher: Parlament House Press
Genre: Steam Punk
Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 2/5

All Isaac Barrow wants is to be left alone to pursue his supernatural research and tinker with his inventions. But when you’re the only technomancer openly practicing the craft in 1880s Halifax, trouble has a way of finding you. When a routine mechanical service call reveals the grisly handiwork of the Nightshade Cabal – an underground cult of necromancers – Barrow finds himself in a race against time to put a stop to the Cabal’s depredations before they can kill anyone else and turn them into… office machinery?Then there’s the mystery of Emily Skye, a missing teenager with strange abilities of her own. Believing her disappearance to be connected to the Nightshade Cabal, Barrow agrees to help track down the missing girl. But even if he can find her, will Miss Skye aid him in his struggle against the Cabal? Or might she turn out to be the deadliest threat of all?

This book wasn’t for me. I wish that it was because the synopsis made the book sound interesting. I’m just not one to read many historical books. This one being set in the 1880’s in Halifax.


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