Review: An Unseen Attraction

An Unseen Attraction by K.J. Charles
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

K.J. Charles is quickly becoming an auto buy for me. The characters that she writes are almost always out of the norm in one way or another and are thus bounds more interesting than most other historicals out there.

The amount of research and attention to detail really shine through the story making the characters and settings that much more believable.

An Unseen Attraction has a noticeably different feel than the books from her Society of Gentlemen series. Not only Victorian instead of Regency, it feels like the reader is getting a peek into a world we have only seen the polish surface of in the past. The fog and mud of London usually having only been commented on by characters in other Victorian romances, the reader actually gets feet on the ground in this story, the fog almost becoming its own being. Experiencing life outside of big houses and ballrooms making the reader even more interested in these 'normal' people than in the society toffs we usually end up reading about.

But there is nothing 'normal' about Clem Talleyfer and Rowley Green, and I couldn't have been happier about that. These two are possibly one of the most engaging and love-sick sigh-worthy people I have read about in some time. They say and do the most terribly heart-exploding things to each other that it is almost painful and you cheer for them the whole time.

There is a mystery, but really, it's not that challenging to figure out and you won't be reading for that anyway.

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