Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales)

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Sedgewick (who tries to have a friendly conversation with her even when she's dead tired and gets cold shouldered for her trouble, and who doesn't fire her for disappearing from her job for several days with no explanation), and Mr.

Employers in the Regency era saw their servants as amoral, unruly children who would indulge in endless sin unless they were taken stringently in hand. This perception is mostly why male and female servants were separated into different sleeping areas, why servants had almost no expectation of privacy, and why employers punished perceived moral slights as though they had parental authority. It screamed fairy tale retelling, what with the sudden romantic idealism between two characters we'd scarcely met.Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne on Half a Soul'Smart and subversive, these charming romances will ignite your heart-and your hope' Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun 'Whimsical, witty, and brimming over with charm' India Holton, author of The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels on Half a Soul'Half a Soul is exactly the comfort read we all need. As a result, servants rarely saw sunlight, and many of them almost certainly suffered from extreme vitamin D deficiency. I also ended up reading The Latch Key, a novella set in the world of the Regency Faerie Tales that takes place after the events of Half a Soul.

Book Description: Effie has most inconveniently fallen in love with the dashing Mr Benedict Ashbrooke. We are so used to reading about the lords and dukes in historical fiction, so this was a nice change because our POV is a maid in a household where none of the servants are treated well. Lord Blackthorn is a benefactor, more than willing to help Effie in her venture, for a trade of one thousand stitches sewn into his favorite jacket. Just passed the halfway point and can feel the Sanderslanche starting - I have a feeling the rest of the book is going to go REAL quick.

After literally consuming the first book Half A Soul in this series I immediately picked up this book within a space of a few hours. Details like accents were on point (one character’s accent changes as the book goes on, and we find that she actually switched it with another character later on who has her original accent – things like that).

Yes, his help leads to some disasters but he is too endearing to be very angry at, and I know Effie will agree with me. I do not mind the phonetic representation of accents or other (for lack of a better word) "nonstandard" ways of speaking. I feel like I’ve written the most boring review for one of the most endearing and whimsical and charming books I’ve read in recent times. When we meet her at the start of the book she’s quite downtrodden, is unhappy being a servant and she sees it as a thankless job especially because she’s not appreciated by the family she works for. This book is a follow on from volume 1 in the series ( Half a Soul), although a rather different story, about a poor embittered maid in a Regency era country mansion.Euphemia Reeves has encountered quite the inconvenient problem in that she has fallen in love with the son of a gentleman. They provide so many unexpected twists and turns that it keeps the more standard fairy tale romance plot infused with moments that leave you reeling.