Second Sight (The Arcane Society, Book 1)
by Amanda Quick
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Author: Amanda QuickEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-27
ISBN: 0515142808
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Jove
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Book Review: Victorian era paranormal romance with some tender sides.
Summary: 5 Stars
I love JAK contemporary novels and her "Jayne Castle" novels. I have been about 75/25 for the Amanda Quick novels as a whole but this one is right up to her form and takes into consideration both the historical time period as well as the paranormal elements.
I read "White Lies" in hard back so I already knew something about the Arcane Society. The story opens with Gabriel and Caleb Jones, cousins, uncovering some amazing artifacts that an ancestor left behind including his own skeleton, books and a strongbox with a journal that has an alleged formula for increasing psychic powers!! The cousins enlist members of the village to help them load things and, of course, one of the villagers is greedy and steals the journal.
We flip a few months ahead to where the lovely Miss Venetia Milton, an up and coming photographer, is taking photographs at the Arcane Society mansion of the many ancient books and antiques that they have including the strongbox. She is escorted by Gabriel Jones. Venetia finds herself very attracted to Mr. Jones who is also intrigued by Miss Milton. Venetia is almost 30 and beyond the "marriageable age" so she is looking for adventure and passion. She doesn't believe in marriage as her father set a poor example (explained later in the story) and thus is hoping that the "heat" she sees in Mr. Jones' eyes is some reciprocal attraction.
Venetia is successful in seducing Gabriel -- or does he seduce her? However, Venetia also has "second sight" and senses strangers in the woods headed for the mansion. Mr. Jones summons his servants and sends them and Venetia out through a secret tunnel while he chases after the two strangers. Venetia with her handsome commission from the Arcane photographs goes to London with her aunt, sister, brother and housekeeper to setup a photo gallery.
The comedy, complexities, mysteries and romance that then ensue are just fascinating. I read this book straight through and thought it was just great fun. There were enough plot turns to keep the reader guessing as to which person wanted the formula and plenty more twists on how all would be resolved.
A fun but intriguing read!
Summary of Second Sight (The Arcane Society, Book 1)
In financial straits and on a sure path to spinsterhood, Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote, ramshackle Arcane House, far from society?s prying eyes, would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. She was there to photograph the relics and artifacts collected by a highly secretive organization, founded two centuries earlier by an eccentric alchemist. And the alchemist?s descendant - her employer, Mr. Gabriel Jones - had the eyes of a sorcerer . . . After a night to remember, Venetia is prepared to cherish the memories of her romantic encounter and move on, but she is shattered when, shortly after their night together, she reads of Jones?s death in the papers. As a private tribute to her one-time lover, she adopts the name ?Mrs. Jones? and the guise of a respectable widow, and embarks on a new career as a fashionable photographer in London, where her unique ability to ?see? beyond her subjects and capture that quality in her photography makes her photographs highly prized. But her romantic whim causes unexpected trouble. For one thing, Mr. Jones is about to stride, living and breathing, back into her life. And the bonds that tie them together include more than just the memory of passion; Venetia?s special ?double vision? has caught the attention of someone Mr. Jones is tracking - someone who will go to any lengths, even murder, to possess an ancient, extraordinary secret that has been lost for centuries. Someone who believes that as the ?wife? of Mr. Jones, Venetia is the key. Now, as she introduces Gabriel about town as her miraculously back-from-the-dead ?husband,? Venetia must join him in a perilous quest to track down a dangerous opponent who manages to stay one step ahead. As they explore the darker, wilder underbelly of the modern, scientific Victorian world, they must see through society?s illusions - or this time, Gabriel Jones may not be coming from the dead, and neither may Mrs. Jones.Literature & Fiction Books
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