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London, 1891.
Deliveries. Opium. Regret. The only three things twenty-one-year-old Gabriel Ashmore’s life consists of until four murder victims are found in the increasingly criminal city, all marked with the same black veins. Gabriel is connected to all four. He delivered Erebus to them, a new opium variant on the market, after being forced to provide for his family following the brutal death of his mother four years ago.
Fearing his involuntary part in the murders, he becomes embroiled in an amateur investigation led by the wealthy aspiring detective Alexander Wakefield, supported by the Leader of the Opposition, Lord Benedict Granville.
However, when they witness the fifth death, they realise nothing is as it seems in the city of veils and shadows. Truths become twisted, secrets are revealed and it soon becomes clear they are not dealing with a single killer, but the greatest criminal plot London has ever seen.
Firstly thank you to Love Books Tours, Book Guild Publishing and Miray Kose for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book to review.
Im gonna have to start with I loved this book. From the cover which looks brilliant and completely sets the scene to the actual written story, this was a fantastic book. I really loved our MC Gabriel, I found him so interesting and I liked seeing the occasional flashback about his life and filling in the blanks about what's happened since the death of his mother( not a spoiler it's in the blurb).
Alexander irritated me to begin with, just as he seemed to irritate Gabriel, but he really grew on me! I found myself liking him towards the end, I started to understand his quirks and I loved the interactions between him and Gabriel.
It's a brilliantly well-written book and I think it reads like the beginning of a series. I was 22 pages in and talking about it with a fellow Book Dragon when I said that it feels like we're being set up for more than one book. I so hope I'm right and we get many more because id love to have more books featuring Gabriel and maybe occasionally Alexander.
I honestly didn't get who the Big Bad Evil was until it was revealed, I had two others I thought it might be and boy was I wrong but I love that!
This book is defiantly staying on my bookshelf, with the hopes that I'll be adding more next to it soon.
Krystina xx
I am also hoping thisis a series
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