I love historical fiction but I have not explored much into a mixture of historic fiction and sci-fi and fantasy. After reading this book I will be keeping an eye out for more. The author has done a great job at mixing the Victorian era, with a parallel timeline of the Irish Potato Famine and Irish folklore into one story. Mix in a love triangle, a mad queen, a waterhorse, banshees, Victorian expectations of wooing, fighting against passion and an epic battle against humans and the supernatural and you have a recipe for a book you cant put down. The only confusion I came across in this novel was in the beginning when it wasn't clear enough that the Irish Royal line survived meaning Ireland has its own ruling Queen and contemporary to Queen Victoria. I would highly recommend this book to others who wish to escape into a magical world based on the Victorian era and Irish Folklore.

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher, Blackstone Publishing, for an advanced electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.