She’s a bit of a “special snowflake” but one you’ve encountered numerous times before. I get it: she’s lived a life constrained by boundaries outside her control but I wish she had more to her personality. I didn’t find the banter as engaging as I wanted. I was hoping the promise of romance might save this one but no such luck. I was pretty far in and nothing had really evolved besides Helen learning that maybe her mother wasn’t a traitor…which is so obvious it’s painful to anyone who has read a book before.

It just felt like this book was taking forever to get somewhere. There’s just something about the bizarre as it meets the lush society that I find endlessly fascinating. I love historical novels with a supernatural twist. Add to it the supernatural element and I was totally onboard to add it to my 5 Year 5 Book Challenge for the year 2015. I adore historical fiction and I don’t get to it often enough in the YA genre. And when I read the synopsis, I was intrigued. This was one of those series that always caught my eye when I was browsing my library’s collection. Find out why below…** Why I Picked it Up / My Expectations: **Disclaimer: I stopped reading The Dark Days Club at 32% (start of Chapter 11) and have opted not to pick up the sequels. Source & Format: Public Library–Hardcover Publication Dates: December 2015 – November 2018 Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance, Supernatural Dare she ask for his help, when his reputation is almost as black as his lingering eyes? And will her intelligence and headstrong curiosity wind up leading them into a death trap? There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of demons infiltrating every level of society. On the eve of eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall’s presentation to the queen, one of her family’s housemaids disappears-and Helen is drawn into the shadows of Regency London. Synopsis for The Dark Days Club (from Goodreads): DNF December Review Blitz - Day 6: I’m sharing my thoughts on some book series that I have marked as incomplete as I have never finished the first novel in the series.

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