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The Fire in the Glass

The London Charismatics, Book 1

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The Fire in the Glass

By: Jacquelyn Benson
Narrated by: Alex Picard
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A library of arcane mysteries. A band of outcasts with complicated powers. The shadow of war on the horizon. Enter the world of the London Charismatics.

1914. A killer stalks the gaslit streets of London, draining the city’s mediums of blood. Lily Albright knows who will be next to die.

For as long as she can remember, Lily has been cursed with visions of the future that she can never change. When a murderer threatens someone she loves, she’s determined to find a way to finally thwart fate—but she can’t do it alone. To save a life, she must trust her most dangerous secret to the denizens of The Refuge, a hidden sanctuary for those who “know the impossible,” from a boy who talks with birds to the reclusive Lord Strangford, whose black gloves conceal a power with the potential to upend all of Lily’s carefully built defenses.

Alongside uncomfortable new allies, Lily follows the threads of a conspiracy that weaves through London in a trail of fire and blood, from a Bond Street gallery where an artist speaks from beyond the grave to a burned-out Southwark hospital haunted by the ghosts of a terrible atrocity—one that reaches all the way to Westminster, where the glittering halls of Parliament already whisper of war. Unraveling it—and changing the future—will force her to face a past rife with betrayal… and embrace the gift she has spent her life trying to escape.

Because power always comes with a price.

Pick up The Fire in the Glass and fall into a riveting fantasy series where history dances with dark, strange magic.

©2020 Jacquelyn Benson (P)2022 Jacquelyn Benson
Fantasy Historical Mystery England Fiction

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Highly recommend this. I'm a huge fan of The Charismatics series and this is the first - great story, interesting characters, beautiful writing. Got the audiobook to chill with - love the narration! It's not distracting from the story as I sometimes find with audiobook narrators and fits in well and pulls me even more into that world.

Exciting and intriguing

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Not a bad story. Group of people with powers is a concept that always goes down well but unfortunately despite being set just before WW1 it resolutely describes a Victorian society with a motorcycle chucked in. Lots of Americanisms and no Briton of any era would really describe someone as being ’a quick study’. I don’t really understand why the author didn’t just set it in America which they obviously know much better. Finally, I know slagging off the narrator is a cheap trick but this one deserves it. For whole moments her English accent was ok but then she would murder a whole range of vowels who had done nothing to deserve it. My favourite was the couple who having disagreed went home and had a row-as if their argument was settled by re-running that year’s university boat race. That was by no means the worst either. I won’t be continuing with the series because my ears couldn’t take it.

The hoarrrrrror

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