Bright Ruin - The Dark Gifts Trilogy (Paperback)

Beautifully characterised and compellingly plotted, Gilded Cage is an impressive debut It’s smart, engrossing and incredibly snappily written, with so many compelling characters and pulse-quickening situations that the whole book just flies by. We apologise for the cliché, but it is that good A dark and intriguing vision of an alternate, magic-drenched Britain, Gilded Cage kept me way up into the night A dazzling addition to the growing genre of alternative historical fiction, James’s first novel has the added bonus of compelling page-turnability Devious and deliciously dark with lashings of magic, mystery and mayhem, this juggernaut of a book will keep you hanging on by your fingernails until the very last page Ms. James writes with the skill of someone who has been an author for decades. I was blown away by how beautiful the prose was . . . In the end I was left emotionally spent and wanting another book to read immediately Gilded Cage is an unputdownable story . . . it’s truly a gem