What more does a girl need than a pile of books and a bowl of chocolate? Let’s talk about what we’ve been reading and feeding our inner chocoholics.

Some books stick in your mind and make you think. When you’re a writer, they often inspire ideas at unexpected times. This book was one that hung around in the back of my mind and inspired some of the issues that Briarwood Sancturary faced in the latest book.

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The Impossible Girl

Cora’s specialty as a ressurectionist is not only profitable, it’s a means to keep a finger on the pulse of those searching for her. She’s the girl born with two hearts—a legend among grave robbers and anatomists—sought after as an endangered prize.

Set in the Victorian era, this story straddles somewhere between murder mystery and thriller. It is the only book I’ve read where the heroine was a ressurectionist, a grave robber supplying bodies to medical schools desperately in need of samples to study. Trouble is, medical oddities have a bounty on them, and are at risk of winding up on the anatomists table earlier than nature intended.

Everything about the premise and the characters was unusual in this one, making it just the sort of thing I tend to look for. With a rich setting and ususual characters, it is a change of pace that I definitely recommend.

If you’re read ‘Here There Be Dragons’, no doubt you can tell what ideas I got from this read.

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