The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker (2009) Leanna Renee Hieber

Picked this up a few weeks ago after breaking my leg, but as I was on pain killers, I couldn’t focus and put it back down. Now that I’m still laid up but no longer spaced out, I’m tearing through books and came back to The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker.

Six children are pulled from the city one night and give the ability to see and control ghosts. Twenty years later they are still looking for their seventh, the one who will help them in their fight against malevolent ghosts and powers. Unfortunately, they have been warned that evil will try to influence their choice and hide the true seventh from them.

Also at this time, the strange orphan Percy Parker is sent to London to finish her education. Hidden away in a convent where her pale skin and lack of coloring did not attract much notice, Percy must now face strangers who she fears will recoil at her presence.

This was quite an interesting book. It’s both romance and fantasy with a large dollop of alternative history thrown in. The romance and the alternative history are a bit over the top, but in a fun and entertaining way. And although you know that the moment from meeting her that Percy is the seventh, and you know that true love will win in the end, that didn’t stop this from being a page turner once events came to a head.

This was a fun, quick read, and I quite enjoyed it.
Rating: 7/10

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