A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

RomanceFantasyHistorical

Feb 24

Written By taylor shepeard

Title: A Restless Truth

Author: Freya Marske

Publication Date: November 1, 2022

Audience: Adult

Genre: Fantasy

Sub-Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance

POV: Dual

Series: Trilogy

Format: Audiobook

—Narrator(s): Aysha Kala

4 ⭐ | 3🌶️

Pros:

✨Easy Read

✨Queer Representation

Cons:

✨Predictable Mystery

Synopsis

The most interesting things in Maud Blyth’s life have happened to her brother Robin, but she’s ready to …

… join any cause, especially if it involves magical secrets that may threaten the whole of the British Isles. Bound for New York on the R.M.S. Lyric, she’s ready for an adventure.
What she actually finds is a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and a beautiful stranger in Violet Debenham, who is everything—a magician, an actress, a scandal—Maud has been trained to fear and has learned to desire. Surrounded by the open sea and a ship full of loathsome, aristocratic suspects, they must solve a murder and untangle a conspiracy that began generations before them.

*Blurb taken from The StoryGraph

Review

This review may contain spoilers.

It took me a moment to get into this one since we switched protagonists from the first book. By the end, though, I enjoyed Maud and Violet, and thought their dynamic was just as lovely as Edwin and Robin’s from the first novel. We didn’t build much on the magic system or the world in this installment, and while I normally love a locked door murder mystery, this hampered that concept by revealing the murderer early on. Then this became a weird cat and mouse, scavenger hunt type plot. It wasn’t my favorite and it dragged. I was also disappointed in the sex scenes because they didn’t feel important to the relationship or the characters’ development. They were just included to be included, which deviated from the first and third books in the trilogy. I did like these characters, but everything else was average and a bit of a let-down after the first book. Still, not a bad read!