A Restless Truth

A Restless Truth (2022) Freya Marske (The Last Binding, #2)

Set in England and across the Atlantic Ocean in 1909

There was a parlour game: one stared at a tray of objects before it was taken away, adjusted, and placed back in front of one’s eyes. Some things added. Some things removed. Robin was excellent at that game. Maud was … not.

“Even without Violet’s magic, you have all the advantages of rank and wealth. Using it to trample all over human dignity, against a person’s will, is not what power is for.”

“It’s the only thing power is for.”

“You were there, Lord Hawthorn,” she appealed to him. “Wasn’t it funny?”

A pause, in which the table warily weighed the question of whether Lord Hawthorn was familiar with the concept of humour.

Characters: Violet Debenham, Maud Blyth, John Alston Baron Hawthorn, Alan Ross/ Alanzo Cesare Rossi, Edwin John Courcey, Robert Harold Blyth, Miss Adelaide Harita Morrissey, Mrs. Catherine Kitty Amrit Kaur, Lord Albert, Miss Elle Broadley, Morris, Sera Seraphina Hope Vaughn, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bernard, Rose Bernard, Helen Bernard, Mary Bastoke, Miss Diana Yu, Elizabeth Navenby, Dorian, Mr. Berry, Arthur Chapman, Mrs. Anna-Maria Moretti, Mrs. Caroline Blackwood, Clarence, Rogers, Jamison, Ellen, Meg, Mr. Hewitt, Liza Sinclair, Lady Enid Blackwood Taverner, Lady Elsie Alston, Walter Courcey, Flora Sutton

Cover art by Will Staehle. Cover design by Christine Foltzer

Publisher: Tor

Rating: 9/10

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