On her eighteenth birthday, Lady Truthful, nicknamed “Newt,” will inherit her family’s treasure: the Newington Emerald. A dazzling heart-shaped gem, the Emerald also bestows its wearer with magical powers. When the Emerald disappears one stormy night, Newt sets off to recover it. Her plan entails dressing up as a man, mustache included, as no well-bred young lady should be seen out and about on her own. While in disguise, Newt encounters the handsome but shrewd Major Harnett, who volunteers to help find the missing Emerald under the assumption that she is a man. Once she and her unsuspecting ally are caught up in a dangerous adventure that includes an evil sorceress, Newt realizes that something else is afoot: the beating of her heart. In Newt’s Emerald, the bestselling author of Sabriel, Garth Nix, takes a waggish approach to the forever popular Regency romance and presents a charmed world where everyone has something to hide.
Publication Year: 2015
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0 0DNF - made it halfway thru before I set it down.
The concept is fascinating. Who doesn't adore a Regency romance with adventure and magic?
Unfortunately, this story falls short. For starters, there is no chemistry between the two characters we're supposed to believe will fall in love. The plot is ill-paced, and drags. The heroine lacks dimension, growth, depth.
I've always had a hard time reading Nix, despite the fact that I believe he's a great writer. He's just not written anything that's for me, and that's fine!
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