.LacyMB reviews adalyngrace_'s Belladonna, a delightfully dark mix of romance and mystery with a fierce heroine at its center.
is a hard novel to categorize. That’s meant as a compliment by the way, though it might not initially seem like one. The book sits at an intriguing crossroads within the world of publishing—a YA novel that deals with very adult themes like murder and sex, a Gothic romance that is also very clearly a coming-of-age tale about a young woman finally claiming her own power, both literally and figuratively.
Set to inherit a vast fortune when she reaches her majority, Signa’s been repeatedly shuffled between greedy relatives looking to use her money for their own ends. Unbeknownst to them, however, though the young woman’s unique connection with death means that she cannot die, those around her most certainly can, and each member of her string of guardians to date has met with an untimely end.
Signa is helped along in her investigation by two men with murky agendas of their own—Silas, a mysterious stable boy who works for the Hawthorne family, and Death himself, who, as it turns out, has essentially been watching over Signa for years. The idea of falling in love with death has a long history in fiction, and Belladonna doesn’t break any new ground here in that regard.
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