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The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman
At the height of Regency glamour, a determined young woman discovers an unsettling gift—and a clandestine world hunting the things that lurk behind polite society’s curtains. Ballrooms meet baneful creatures in The Dark Days Club, a lush historical fantasy brimming with danger, wit, and dark allure.
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... the meticulously rendered Regency high society laced with hidden magical orders?
Sorcerer To The Crown by Zen Cho
If you loved watching Lady Helen navigate Almack’s and court presentations while secretly apprenticing with Lord Carlston and the Dark Days Club, you’ll relish how Zacharias Wythe and Prunella Gentleman contend with the Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers amid drawing rooms, patronage politics, and scandal. Sorcerer to the Crown delivers the same ballroom-to-back‑alley blend of etiquette, espionage, and enchantment—with a witty, textured Regency backdrop as vivid as Lady Helen’s London.
... subtle magic threaded through a vividly real historical setting?
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
You enjoyed how Lady Helen’s demon-hunting hides in plain sight amid carriages, musicales, and propriety. In The Golem and the Jinni, Chava and Ahmad slip through 1899 New York much like the Reclaimers work behind Regency façades—supernatural beings masking their nature in a world of night markets, tenements, and immigrant neighborhoods. The magic is intimate, secretive, and grounded, echoing the concealed dangers that haunt Lady Helen’s London.
... a fearless, witty heroine who defies society while sparring with the supernatural?
Soulless by Gail Carriger
If Lady Helen’s steel—standing up to lords and dowagers while matching Lord Carlston barb for barb—won you over, Alexia Tarabotti will delight you. In Soulless, Alexia takes tea with vampires, bickers (and smolders) with Lord Maccon, and charges headlong into conspiracies, much as Lady Helen confronts Reclaimers beneath the veneer of respectability. You get brains, backbone, and banter with a heroine who refuses to stay in the drawing room.
... a patient, clue-by-clue historical mystery that rewards lingering?
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
The deliberate, investigative pace of Lady Helen tracking her missing maid and uncovering the Dark Days Club’s secrets is mirrored here. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street follows Thaniel Steepleton into a web of quiet revelations—mysterious clocks, whispered threats, and unlikely alliances—unfolding with the same measured tension that made Helen’s discoveries so satisfying.
... dangerous occult forces that tempt and corrupt as they empower?
The Diviners by Libba Bray
If the peril of Lady Helen’s abilities—and the predatory nature of the Reclaimers—hooked you, The Diviners delivers that same thrill. Evie O’Neill’s gifts draw her into a string of occult murders by the entity known as Naughty John, where every use of power has a cost and the darkness pushes back. It’s the kind of sinister, otherworldly menace that lurks beneath the dances and decorum in Lady Helen’s world.
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