"The extravagance and extremes of the Roaring Twenties combines with witchcraft, corruption and violence in this heady, absorbing read."
Darkly suggestive and consuming, this historical fantasy novel offers a nod to The Great Gatsby. Annie Mason finds herself in an unknown world of blood magic and murder when she investigates her inheritance. This is set just after the First World War, where witchcraft, which had a huge influence in the war, has been all but banned. At the beginning I wondered if I had entered a realm already formed as I found myself hesitating and searching for information that wasn’t immediately available. However, I soon settled in and immersed myself in the stormy and decadent atmosphere, where the urge to live as large a life as possible after the effects of the war hits hard. The plot bubbled along in the background as the characters took centre stage. While Annie and Emmeline throbbed with energy as they explored their feelings for each other, the secondly characters added real depth and flavour before pulling the story together. Author Francesca May successfully evokes the excess of the time, and also balances the abuse, dark magic, and violence that can be found in the story with the innocence of Annie, love and friendship. Chosen as a Liz Pick of the Month, Wild and Wicked Things successfully steals into thoughts and thoroughly provokes feelings.
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In the aftermath of the First World War, a young woman gets swept into a glittering world filled with illicit magic, romance, blood debts and murder in this lush and decadent debut novel.
On Crow Island, people whispered, real magic lurked just below the surface. But Annie Mason never expected her enigmatic new neighbour to be a witch.
When she witnesses a confrontation between her best friend Bea and the infamous Emmeline Delacroix at one of Emmeline's extravagantly illicit parties, Annie is drawn into a glittering, haunted world. A world where magic can buy what money cannot; a world where the consequence of a forbidden blood bargain might be death.
Wild and Wicked Things features in the following genres: Fantasy, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Historical Fiction, Sharing Diverse Voices, Dark fantasy, Historical fantasy, Alternative history fiction, Dark romance, Relating to gay people, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Speculative fiction, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests, Interest qualifiers, Fiction: narrative themes, LGBTQ+ Fiction
Wild and Wicked Things is available in Paperback, Hardback
Wild and Wicked Things was written by Francesca May and published by Orbit an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Wild and Wicked Things has 420 pages
£11.69
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