Of Monsters and Madness
Author: Jessica Verday
Publication Date: September 9th 2014
Publisher: EgmontUSA
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
A romantic, historical retelling of classic Gothic horror featuring Edgar Allan Poe and his character Annabel Lee, from a New York Times best-selling author.Summoned to her father's home in 1820's Philadelphia, a girl finds herself in the midst of a rash of gruesome murders in which he might be implicated. She is torn romantically between her father's assistants-one kind and proper, one mysterious and brooding-who share a dark secret and may have more to do with the violent events than they're letting on.
I'm not going to pretend I know anything about the poem of
Annabel Lee. I know it, of course, but I've never studied it, and although I do
like poetry, it's not exactly my favourite thing in the world. I've seen Mary
Lindsey's Ashes on Waves that made me want to read it, so when I saw Of
Monsters and Madness I couldn't resist (I mean, have you read that title? Of.
Monsters. and. Madness. It practically screams read me!) Besides, In the land of Gods and Monsters...I had
Lana Del Rey's Gods & Monsters in my head the whole time (don't ask why, my
brain doesn't know. And we're not talking about my love for Lana Del Rey, we're
talking about the book, right? No more music talk.)
