Banquet of Lies

Banquet of Lies (2013) Michelle Diener (Regency London #2)

Set in London in 1812

“He reacted without thinking.”

“How can you send someone out to starve without thinking?” Iris asked, her voice soft.

“We’ve been fattening Mavis up,” Iris said, and something in the way she said it made Gigi go very still. If this was evidence of Mavis with more meat on her bones, she must have been a walking skeleton when she’d gotten here.

There’d been deep, cold anger in Iris’s voice, and she looked across at her. Their eyes met, and Gigi felt a sense of connection bloom, their mutual anger and horror at Mavis’s suffering binding them together.

“You look like a beautiful Viking maiden. I can see you with a raven on your shoulder, riding into battle to choose who will fall and who will be spared.”

“Eh?” Iris stared at her, holding her ash-smudged hands away from her white apron.

“The Valkyries. From Norse legend. They rode horses into battle, and chose who was to fall and die.”

“Not sure I’d like to have that sort o’ responsibility.”

I adore Iris.

Characters: Giselle Barrington, Lord Jonathan Aldridge, Sir Edward Thornton, Sir Eric Barrington, Barbara, Iris, Edgars, Mavis, Harry, Rob, Georges Bisset, Mr. Jones, Mary Jones, Mr. Greenway, Adèle Barrington, Captain Reginald Harriford, Daniel Dervish, Charlotte Durnham, Lord Edward Durnham, Lady Catherine Howe, Lady Emma Holliday, The Duke of Wittaker, Frobisher, Mr. Rice, Mr. Unwin, Mrs Thakery, Mrs. Lambert, Gilbert, Peterson, Gertrude, Violet, Bess, Henry Ingleton

Publisher: Gallery Books

Rating: 10/10

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