My Bookish Life

So this post is not only a review but also my participation in my first booktour with @lovebooktours on Twitter/Instagram. Thanks for the ARC and all your effort.  Also I've a confession to make. It's past midnight - so officially my date of the booktour - and I didn't finish the book. Not because it wasn't good but because of bloody life. (Work was a pain in the ass lately and I worked so much overtime and weekends I barely managed to finish my copy of Ace of Spades.) So this post is not like the other's but different.    "Death is inevitable and common. [...] There is no pretense in it. Not in birth either. There's no reason to hide grief or joy." First of all the official synopsis this time:  Calcutta, 1886. Ottilie Russell is adrift between two cultures, British and Indian, belonging to both and neither. To support her little brother, Thaddeus, and her grandmother, she relies upon her skills in beetle-wing embroidery that have been passed down to h...

  First of all I'd like to thank Annabe Fielding herself, for contacting me on my booktwt and asking me to read her new book. Thank you so much, it made me incredibly happy to get my first ARC!  And it was a brilliant read!  CAREFUL! If you want  to receive no spoilers for this story, skip to the next quote and read from there!  "Still waters are deep."    The book is set in Edwardian England and starts with a young girl - Agnes Ashford - who's working for Lord and Lady Bryant as archivist. The story is mostly set in Hartfell Hall in Leicestershire and in London. The books beginn with her wandering through the deep tunnels under the castle and looking through old documents and letters to archive them chronologically. We see her uncover the mystery of the death of the second youngest child Gregory. With this she comes closer to Lady Helen Bryant. But things all change for the whole family when Lord Bryant is poisoned.  Agnes soon rises to a secreta...