Confounding Oaths, Audiobook

Confounding Oaths, Audiobook (2024) Alexis Hall (The Mortal Follies #2)

Set in London in 1814

I really love Nneka Okoye’s narration.

And of course Alexis Hall’s snark.

And whereas in the enlightened twenty-first century the marriage of a British aristocrat to a Person of Colour is a wholly unremarkable thing that results in no hostility whatsoever, in the bad old days of the 1800s it caused quite a scandal.

This, his movements said, was a man who could slay dragons. Not that there are any of those left to be slain anymore. Possibly because people kept slaying them.

Sometimes, you can see a gentleman walking towards a cliff edge from so far away you have time to fetch your trombone and start playing an appropriately farcical tune.

From this distance and at this angle it was impossible to know who that figure was, but Miss Bickle had a strong sense of narrative fitness, and in this place narrative fitness was a surer law than gravity.

Characters: Mr. John Caesar, Miss Mary Caesar, Miss Anne Caesar, Lady Mary Caesar, Mr Caesar, Miss Penworthy, Vicomte Alexandre de Loux, Miss Maelys Mitchelmore, Mr. Thomas Ellersley, Miss Lysistrata Bickle, Lord Richard Hale, Major Bloodworth, Captain Orestes James, Jim Bailey, Infantryman Callaghan, Lord Hawksmoor, Lady Georgiana Landrake, Mr. Saunders, Barry Barryson, George Kumar, Boy William, Jackson, Sal, Lieutenant Reyne, Amenirdis, Jim Cooper

Cover by Radiante Mozzarelle

Publisher: Random House Audio

Rating: 9.5/10

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