Genre: Historical horror/fantasy.
The tag line for this book goes - 'She loved her country. She hated zombies.' Based on this tag line I expected to get a 19th century, Buffy the vampire slayer book.
The book is not a 19th century, Buffy the vampire slayer. Nor is it a romance novel as some might believe, reading the blurb on the back of the book.
The book focuses on the time period just before Victoria's coronation to a few years after that. One might expect a 19th century Royal court to have various intrigues. In this book those intrigues involve Demons, Zombies, werewolves and such.
The book is well written with the author trying a fair bit, to humanise and build up the characters. For the most part he succeeds. The plot line in the book is functional and simplistic. There are no complex twist and turns here. There are a few sub-plots and surprises that keep it interesting though. The pace of the book is very brisk with events happening at a rapid pace. The book contains a lot of gore. I liked the gore in the book and thought it fit in well with the tone of the book. But a fair warning, if you don't like gore, you will find it gratuitous.
Quimby a side character in this book, ends up stealing the show. And that is the most severe failing of this book, since Victoria's character does not end up dominating the book, as one might expect of the title character.
All in all this is a light fun read as long as you don't mind the gore.
Rating: 4 / 5, Recommended
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