The Heartless City-Review

The Heartless City-Review

I stumbled across Andrea Berthot on twitter one day and seen she had a link to her book in her bio. Decided to have a look and then quickly decided I needed to have a read. And I must say, I made a fabulous discovery.

It’s 1903 and London has been in quarantine for 13 years. Dr Jekyll has accidentally created a race of heart eating monsters. The monarchy has fled leaving the Lord Mayor in charge. Elliot Morrissey, the son of the most prominent doctor (who is searching for a cure) has suffered his own brush with a science experiment gone wrong, and finds himself an empath, someone who can feel the emotions of everyone around them.

He forms an unlikely ally in Iris Faye,as a plot device, as she is probably one of the most well rounded characters in the series.

I do feel like the characters and the relationships are what mattered in this book. The hydes and the quarantine are exciting and consistent and add a good twist to the end of the story, but I feel these characters would bring life to any story. This could have been set in regular London and I still would have loved every single character, (even the bad guys were well developed).

However the relationship between Elliot and Iris did move exceptionally quickly. One minute he meets her in the bar she works in and a few hours later he is gushing about how brave she is and how much he admires her. Yes