However, the book is not all doom and gloom, far from it as some of the characters provide a sense of humour that keeps things light and realistic. Not only is the book set five years into the French Revolution, with the disturbing use of the guillotine, it also steps into the scientific discovery of galvanism, the use of electricity on the human body! (Think Frankenstein here!!) As the plot progresses, the reader is dropped into the depths of France and you get to experience the dark side of the Revolution with the abuse and cruel death of the aristocracy. Camille and her friends have been placed in an impossible position who can they trust? What has this poor girl been through? Why is she so important? However, when they find her, they discover that they have been mislead and that the young girl has got some dark and disturbing powers.

The story opens with their current mission, to rescue the daughter of an aristocrat. This group of well developed characters rescue those who are about to meet a 'bloody end' at the blade of Madame la Guillotine. It's got historical world building, same sex romances, scientific exploration and lots and lots of drama.Ĭamille, the daughter of a revolutionary, leads a groups of outcasts during the French Revolution.

Dangerous Remedy, I believe, will be a very popular book for 2020. What an action packed, well researched and well written debut novel. As Camille learns the truth, she's forced to choose between loyalty to those she loves and the future. In a fast and furious story full of the glamour and excesses, intrigue and deception of these dangerous days, no one can be trusted, everyone is to be feared. The girl's no aristocrat, but her dark and disturbing powers means both the Royalists and the Revolutionaries want her. But their latest rescue is not what she seems. As the Battalion des Morts they cheat death, saving those about to meet a bloody end at the blade of Madame La Guillotine. A whirlwind of action, science and magic reveals, with a diverse cast of fearless heroines, a band of rebels like no other.Ĭamille, a revolutionary's daughter, leads a band of outcasts - a runaway girl, a deserter, an aristocrat in hiding. The first in a dazzling, commercial, historical adventure series set in the extravagant and deadly world of the French Revolution.

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