Lady of Uncanny Charms
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Lady of Uncanny Charms
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Narrated by:
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Graham Halstead
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Billie Fulford-Brown
In this thrilling final installment of the Whimbrel House series from Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg, Cora and Owein must uncover magical and secret conspiracies in the palace as the future they dreamed of is at stake.
Owein arrives in England to marry Lady Cora of Leiningen, his dearest friend and confidante he’s known mostly through letters. However, Queen Victoria has other plans in store for the centuries-old wizard. The queen is obsessed with preserving magic, and she believes Owein is the key to pursuing her lofty ambitions.
Torn from his family, his home, and his betrothed, Owein is pushed into the Queen’s League of Magicians, where he learns the crown’s upheaval of his life is only the beginning of his problems. Meanwhile Cora must push aside her broken heart and use her own spells and resources to uncover truths the queen wants hidden.
As new threats, former loves, untapped spells, and even older souls than Owein collide, his next choice could be his last: forfeit his heart, body, and magic to the insidious machinations of the crown, or commit treason against it.
© 2026 by Charlie N. Holmberg. ℗ 2026 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
As a final instalment in a series, it’s a little jarring. The focus in book 4 moved to Owein, I wasn’t overly happy about it, but went with it. This one is all about Owein and Cora. Basically a book set in the world of Whimbrel House series, but not really a part of the whole story we’ve actually read, it felt related, but not of it. So if you think about from that pov, I can say I enjoyed the story as a separate entity to the series.
The introduction of the ‘villain’ was interesting, but also really borderline cruel. She is portrayed quite poorly, and as a Scot, I understand her feeling of outright rage and disgust at what is planned for her. Especially with her history, to make her the bad guy, it doesn’t sit well with me.
Queen Victoria is an awful character, unsure how accurate that might be, historically, regardless she is the true villain. And as another reviewer has stated, we’re almost asked to support the side that is in favour of selective breeding programmes against folks will.
The narrators were great for their own characters; but the female narrator being Owein was grating, to the point I asked myself if she had heard her costar speak, at all. And it was especially bad when followed closely by the male narrator (I think I preferred him for most of the voices); but generally the Scots accent was not performed well by either.
This feels a rather discordant ending to the series.
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