Much like the lords and ladies trapped by King Stuart, A Multitude of Dreams by Mara Rutherford sucked me into a lush manor, dripping with fleeting opulence and blood, and did not let me out of its grasp until the very last page.
I loved the sinister gothic atmosphere combined with the dramatic irony of fake identities held at times by both of our protagonists set against a backdrop of uncertainty as to where the greatest danger truly lies.
Seraphina's struggle with survivor's guilt, along with the ways in which each villain were given complexity which force her to confront the past and forgive herself were elegantly done, especially in a YA novel with more sinister beings afoot.
Reading about a the aftermath of a fantasy plague inspired by the Black Death with nods to Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death is exactly the way I hoped to start my spooky season reads and I am so glad to have picked this one up.
I loved the sinister gothic atmosphere combined with the dramatic irony of fake identities held at times by both of our protagonists set against a backdrop of uncertainty as to where the greatest danger truly lies.
Seraphina's struggle with survivor's guilt, along with the ways in which each villain were given complexity which force her to confront the past and forgive herself were elegantly done, especially in a YA novel with more sinister beings afoot.
Reading about a the aftermath of a fantasy plague inspired by the Black Death with nods to Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death is exactly the way I hoped to start my spooky season reads and I am so glad to have picked this one up.