Newt's Emerald
by Garth Nix
Katherine Teagan's Books, 2015. Young Adult Fiction. 291 p.
Truthful Newington is a young heiress looking forward to her first season in London in an alternative Regency period England. At her 18th birthday party, her grandfather shows her part of her inheritance, a large emerald rumored to have great magical powers. During the party the lights go out and someone steals the emerald. Truthful decides to go to London, dressed as a man, to search for possible leads to its whereabouts, but the deception brings more trouble and excitement than she could have ever imagined.
This crazy historical fantasy/mystery is like Georgette Heyer meets... well... Garth Nix. Nix shows that he has a least a little familiarity of the time period, talking about dresses, and balls, and the "ton". But he adds in an evil sorceress, necromancers (a Nix mainstay), and pirates to make it a little more interesting. It is a delightful and clean teen/adult read.
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