The Quick by Lauren Owen

The Quick

by Lauren Owen

You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick –

But first you must travel to Victorian Yorkshire, and there, on a remote country estate, meet a brother and sister alone in the world and bound by tragedy. In time, you will enter the rooms of London’s mysterious Aegolius Club – a society of some of the richest, most powerful men in fin-de-siecle England. And at some point – we cannot say when – these worlds will collide.

It is then, and only then, that a new world emerges, one of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors – and the secrets of The Quick are revealed.

Reviewed by wyvernfriend on

3 of 5 stars

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Ho hum, the title and it's regular extension told me the twist, I didn't care about the characters or their survival except some minor characters and they were killed off pretty readily.

This falls between urban fantasy set in the past and more literary fantasy but almost magic realistic works like [b:Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell|14201|Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell|Susanna Clarke|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1357027589s/14201.jpg|3921305] and I prefer my fantasy/urban fantasy more straight up.

Failed to live up to the hype

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