REVIEW: "A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure" by Angela Bell
About the Book: ✦ Title: A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure ✦ Author: Angela Bell ✦ Genre: Christian Historical Romance (with steampunk elements and nods to Around the World in 80 Days and the Nutcracker) ✦ Series: Currently a standalone novel ✦ Recommend for: Ages 14/15+ My Personal Rating 5 ⭐️ 📖 Synopsis Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, England, 1860 When Clara's ex-fiancé begins to spread rumors that her family suffers from hereditary insanity, it's all she can do to protect them from his desperate schemes, society's prejudice, and a lifetime in an asylum. Then Clara's Grandfather Drosselmeyer brings on an apprentice with a mechanical leg, and all pretense of normalcy takes wing. Theodore Kingsley, a shame-chased vagabond haunted by the war, wants a fresh start far from Kingsley Court and the disappointed father who declared him dead. Upon returning to England, Theodore meets clockma...