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Title: Her Dark Curiosity
Author: Megan Shepherd
Series: The Madman's Daughter
Publisher: Balzer+Bray
Release Date:  Jan. 28, 2013
Pages: 368
Format: ARC
Source: Publisher
Description:      
To defeat the darkness, she must first embrace it.

Months have passed since Juliet Moreau returned to civilization after escaping her father's island—and the secrets she left behind. Now, back in London once more, she is rebuilding the life she once knew and trying to forget Dr. Moreau’s horrific legacy—though someone, or something, hasn’t forgotten her.

As people close to Juliet fall victim one by one to a murderer who leaves a macabre calling card of three clawlike slashes, Juliet fears one of her father’s creations may have also escaped the island. She is determined to find the killer before Scotland Yard does, though it means awakening sides of herself she had thought long banished, and facing loves from her past she never expected to see again.

As Juliet strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness, she finds herself once more in the midst of a world of scandal and danger. Her heart torn in two, past bubbling to the surface, life threatened by an obsessive killer—Juliet will be lucky to escape alive.

With inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this is a tantalizing mystery about the hidden natures of those we love and how far we’ll go to save them from themselves.

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Biography

Megan Shepherd grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where her family has owned and operated an independent bookstore for over 35 years. Shepherd attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in international studies and went on to live and work in Costa Rica, Senegal, Scotland, Spain, and many other countries. Now, Shepherd has returned to Western North Carolina and is a full-time writer of young adult novels.

This one picks up where The Madman's Daughter left off.  This one was a little faster than book one (so I wanted to make sure that everyone knew that). As I had issues with the pacing of book one. This book is one of those that are so hard to review.  Because, although I loved the twists that this one had. I still had a few issues with pacing (wanting to fall asleep) and just the overall feel of the story and its plot line.  This book is a lot darker than book one.  Filled with scandal, sex, murder, etc. So please make sure you have that in mind if you pick this one up.  This one really suffers from middle-book-syndrome as the plot was not as interesting as the first one.  It really serves more to bridge the first and third books together than a real story in itself.  It does answer a few questions  that were asked in book one. But, even with all of this going on I am still very excited about book three!  As the end of this one opens a new twist that I can't wait to see where Shepherd takes it. 

 "*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

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From the Back Cover

Months have passed since Juliet Moreau returned to civilization after escaping her father's island—and the secrets she left behind. Now back in London, she is rebuilding the life she once knew and trying to forget Dr. Moreau's horrific legacy—though someone, or something, hasn't forgotten her. As people close to Juliet fall victim one by one to a murderer who leaves a macabre calling card of three clawlike slashes, Juliet fears one of her father's creations may have also made it off the island. She is determined to find the killer before Scotland Yard does, though it means awakening sides of herself she had thought long banished, and facing loves from her past she never expected to see again. As Juliet strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness, she finds herself once more in the midst of a world of scandal and danger. Her heart torn in two, past bubbling to the surface, life threatened by an obsessive killer—Juliet will be lucky to escape alive. With inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this is a tantalizing mystery about the hidden natures of those we love and how far we'll go to save them from themselves.

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