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The Eterna Files is a Victorian era fantasy setting with the main viewpoints switching between the American team and British team that are each searching for a cure to death. The murder of Lincoln and a nation’s grief started it for the US and Britain soon followed since the upstart Americans can’t have such technology and Queen Victoria is also grieving for Prince Albert. Clara Templeton, heads the group of Americans working on the Eterna project and is reeling from the sudden death of teammate and secret sweetheart. Clara can speak to ghosts and is trying to communicate with him in order to find out how he and the other team mates dies while working on a solution. The British team is headed by a policeman that is not happy to be pulled of a large murder investigation to run this department that he is very skeptical about.
The book spends time shifting focus between the two teams and introducing everyone on the team and why each member is important to the team. Of course team members still keep secrets from each other only to have them come out at inopportune times. The setting is very much a character in the story and social roles and societal pressures are constantly remarked upon. Just as the book gets going a third player in the race to the Eterna Compound starts working against each of them while keeping themselves hidden from view.
The idea of the story is interesting but even with the action it dragged a bit to me. And with this being the start of a series there is no good conclusion at the end of the book and much of a feeling of waiting for the next book of the series.
Digital copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley
The book spends time shifting focus between the two teams and introducing everyone on the team and why each member is important to the team. Of course team members still keep secrets from each other only to have them come out at inopportune times. The setting is very much a character in the story and social roles and societal pressures are constantly remarked upon. Just as the book gets going a third player in the race to the Eterna Compound starts working against each of them while keeping themselves hidden from view.
The idea of the story is interesting but even with the action it dragged a bit to me. And with this being the start of a series there is no good conclusion at the end of the book and much of a feeling of waiting for the next book of the series.
Digital copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley
