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The Heartless City

Gold and Gaslight Chronicles Series, Book 1

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The Heartless City

Written by: Andrea Berthot
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
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Henry Jekyll was a brilliant doctor, a passionate idealist who aimed to free mankind of selfishness and vice. He's also the man who carelessly created a race of monsters. Once shared secretly among the good doctor's inner circle, the Hyde drug was smuggled into mass-production - but in pill form, it corrupted its users at the genetic level, leaving them liable to transform without warning. A quarter of the population are now clandestine killers - ticking bombs that could detonate at any given moment.

It's 1903, and London has been quarantined for 13 years. Son of the city's most prominent physician and cure-seeker, 17-year-old Elliot Morrissey has had his own devastating brush with science, downing a potion meant to remove his human weaknesses and strengthen him against the Hydes - and finding instead he's become an empath, leveled by the emotions of a dying city. He finds an unlikely ally in Iris Faye, a waitress at one of the city's rowdier music halls, whose emotions nearly blind him; her fearlessness is a beacon in a city rife with terror. Iris, however, is more than what she seems, and reveals a mission to bring down the establishment that has crippled the people of London.

©2015 Andrea Berthot (P)2017 Tantor Fantasy Historical Science Fiction Steampunk
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one book with verbal consent despite the fact that ml is an empath and knows what fl wants. "knowing someone wants a kiss isn't the same as permission" were mls words to fl when she asked why won't he kiss her when he knows that she wanted it.. these words are something every romance writer, couple that haven't established the boundaries of their blanket consent yet needs to understand (C12:15m).

• C11: 35m: best feature of the ability of empath (understanding how someone feels and sharing it with others) could be used to resolve conflicts as most people aren't good at communication and even that won't necessarily make other party receptive to it...

• it has just the right touch of romance and there were thankfully no 18+ scenes (while some people may prefer it, there are too many books with 18+ stuff but not enough with clean and wholesome works).

one of the best books I've listened to!

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