Miss Violet and the Great War
A Strangely Beautiful Novel
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Publisher Description
PRISM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
A superb, standalone adventure in Leanna Renee Hieber's groundbreaking, critically acclaimed Strangely Beautiful series, full of passion and power.
From childhood, Violet Rychman has dreamed of a coming war, of death and battle on an unimaginable scale. She has seen and heard ghosts, who have loved and guided her.
Now the future she dreamed has come to pass. World War I rages across Europe. Millions of people are dying; entire villages are disappearing.
A great and terrible vision sweeps over Violet, offering powers heralded by the Muses of antiquity. The ability to impact people’s memories, even shape their thoughts. To guide their souls. To pass between the world of the living and that of the dead and to bring others through that passage.
These and other gifts once belonged to people Violet loved. Now they are hers, and she must use them to attempt to stop death itself.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Hieber's disappointing fourth Strangely Beautiful gaslamp fantasy (after 2017's Perilous Prophecy), a spirit medium journeys to the battlefields of the Great War. Violet Rychman has been able to see ghosts her whole life, which isn't surprising, since her mother, Percy at one time inhabited by the goddess Persephone is a former member of the now-dissolved Guard, who kept London safe from harmful spirits. Violet's persistent visions started as a child and have shown her fields of war littered with the bodies of thousands. In 1914, war breaks out and Violet, disguised as a nurse, travels to the front in Verdun, France, with plans to help ease the transition of so many tortured souls. Meanwhile, Will Page, Violet's best and oldest friend, enlists, seeking the source of the "hissing darkness" that haunts him. Percy gathers the former Guard and heads to France to find Violet and help in her mission. Hieber comfortably navigates her magic-infused world, but the prose, which loosely emulates a Victorian style, is heavy-handed ("Divinities dove home once more into flawed flesh") and relies too much on exposition. Series fans may be happy to see the Guard back together, but new readers may be lost in this overwrought fantasy.
