Her Dark Curiosity
Megan Sheperd
Juliet is back in London. She has left the island, her father now dead, and her love, Montgomery left her to stay behind. Juliet's health condition is beginning to worsen, and she is determined to find the ultimate cure, as long as that will not lead her down the dark path her father followed long ago.
When mysterious murders begin to occur in the dark streets of London, all signs point to a creature with claws and a thirst for blood. When Juliet figures out all the victims have, at one point, wronged her, she realizes the murderer can only be one person...her lost friend from the island--the one successful chemically made human/animal hybrid.
Juliet must face Edward Prince and help them both to find a cure before it's too late...
This story is a new take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which I love! The first story was a classic, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Shepherd is taking a page from the teen handbook and taking classic stories and forming them into interconnected teen series. Instead of redoing fairy tales or vampire, Shepherd uses great literature and fuses it together to make a jam-packed mega-book of awesome sauce (Sidney, you will like that term!).
This story IS a bit more difficult to read, only because it does take those elements from the original texts, which has some impressive underlying themes that Shepherd tries to, and succeeds in, adding to her new storyline.
There are three books to this series, so check out the first, The Madman's Daughter, and I can't wait for the third book, A Cold Legacy (which eludes to the story of Frankenstein)!!!
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