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Title details for The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber - Available

The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

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by Leanna Renee Hieber
Rena Durham
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The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, by Leanna Renee Hieber (Unabridged)

What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Hidden in the dark heart of Victorian London, the Romanesque school was dreadfully imposing, a veritable fortress, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met its powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadows, of the Ripper and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie stood guard. She saw simply that she was different, haunted, with her snow white hair, pearlescent skin and uncanny gift. This arched stone doorway was a portal to a new life, to an education far from what could be had at a conventand it was an invitation to an intimate yet dangerous dance at the threshold of life and death...

I.S.B.N.: 9781897304723

Genre: Romance/Horror

Read by: Rena Durham

Length: 9 Hours

  • Creators

  • Series

    Strangely Beautiful

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 3, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • File size: 287843 KB
      • Duration: 09:59:40

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 31, 2009
      Six young men and women are called to protect the living world from the dead in Hieber's Gothic romance debut. Mysterious powers give Alexi and his peers the mission of keeping the restless dead in line and seeking a prophesied seventh guardian. Miss Percy Parker, an albino orphan with a talent for languages, fills none of their expectations, but Alexi is drawn to her all the same. Hieber draws Victorian London as beautiful and grim, with depictions of Jack the Ripper as a nightmarish many-headed hound alongside charming descriptions of the Athens Academy, Percy's boarding school, and Greek mythology that smartly draws together various elements of the story. The supporting characters are nuanced and appealing but given short shrift by the narrow focus on Percy and Alexi, though future sequels may give them more room to play. Hieber's debut shows great potential, and readers will want to revisit her intriguing world.

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  • English

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