It helps that Lady Helen is such a compelling main character. It’s miles from a Jane Austen novel, but the author does a great job of giving us the Georgian-era feel while still mixing in elements of mystery and fantasy. The basic premise is the same-a young girl with a mysterious family history finds out she actually has the ability to fight supernatural villains. It actually reminded me a lot of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare (which actually has a Victorian spinoff of its own). The Dark Days Club is the first in what will be a series of novels focused on Lady Helen and her adventures in Regency London. Will Helen follow her demon-fighting destiny with Lord Carlston? Or will she resign herself to the life of a proper English wife instead? When she meets the mysterious Lord Carlston, who has quite the checkered past himself, she discovers that the growing spirit inside her actually points to the rare ability to identify and destroy a group of supernatural baddies that are overrunning England. She gets the feeling she’s meant for something more than ballrooms and husband hunting. After all, isn’t that the best that any young lady with fortune and tainted family connections can hope for?īut, Helen has other ideas. Helen’s mother, who drowned at sea ten years before, was allegedly a traitor to England, and Helen’s current guardians-her aunt and uncle-really hope this won’t affect Helen’s chance of making a good marriage. We meet 18-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall on the eve of her presentation to Queen Charlotte. So, if you love a battle between the forces of good and evil… all set against the backdrop of the upper-crust society of 1812 London, then The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman should be on your reading list. Fantasy novels with a supernatural bent are all the rage right now.
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