Book Review
Title: A Cold Legacy
Author: Megan Shepherd
Date Published: January 27th, 2015
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Page Count: 390
Rating: ★★★.5
Synopsis:
After killing the men who tried to steal her
father’s research, Juliet—along with Montgomery, Lucy, Balthazar, and a deathly
ill Edward—has escaped to a remote estate on the Scottish moors. Owned by the
enigmatic Elizabeth von Stein, the mansion is full of mysteries and unexplained
oddities: dead bodies in the basement, secret passages, and fortune-tellers who
seem to know Juliet’s secrets. Though it appears to be a safe haven, Juliet
fears new dangers may be present within the manor’s own walls.
Then Juliet uncovers the truth about the
manor’s long history of scientific experimentation—and her own intended role in
it—forcing her to determine where the line falls between right and wrong, life
and death, magic and science, and promises and secrets. And she must decide if
she'll follow her father’s dark footsteps or her mother’s tragic ones, or
whether she'll make her own.
With inspiration from Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein, this breathless conclusion to the Madman’s Daughter trilogy is
about the things we'll sacrifice to save those we love—even our own humanity.
My Thoughts:
In this final book of the trilogy Juliet, Montgomery, Edward and
Lucy runaway to Elizabeth's Von Steins estate in Scotland to avoid the law, As
they spent more days in the estate Juliet begins to realize that the mansion
holds many mysteries, secret passageways, and oddly enough many dead bodies.
Though to the others the mansion feels like a safe haven, Juliet begins to
unravel its many secrets and in the way the role she plays in all of it.
I didn't enjoy this book as much as the others, the ending didn't
do it for me it seemed to be lacking something. Even though this book was not
all I was expecting it to be there where some things I did like, that being
some of the surprises the author threw in there that help you understand why
Montgomery acted the way he did in the first book she also cleared up a lot of
things for me.
The book as a whole was very enjoyable and a fun dark read. I gave
the book three and a half stars because like I said the ending was missing
something, it just didn't do it for me. Now that I'm finished with this series,
I can say I'm really going to miss all the characters. I really grew attached
to all of them and can't believe I won’t know anything more about them. If you
have not picked this trilogy up yet, I really recommend you do it's a very fast
and fun dark read. I also enjoyed that all of them were re tellings of well-known
classics.
-SandraTheBookWorm
