Review: Magic Under Glass (Magic Under, #1) by Jaclyn Dolamore
Title: Magic Under Glass Series: Magic Under #1 Author: Jaclyn Dolamore Release Date: February 1st 2010 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Pages: 225 ISBN: 1408802120 (isbn13: 9781408802120) Age: Young Adult Synopsis from goodreads.com: Nimira is a music-hall performer forced to dance for pennies to an audience of leering drunks. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to do a special act - singing accompaniment to an exquisite piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new life. In Parry's world, however, buried secrets stir. Unsettling below-stairs rumours abound about ghosts, a mad woman roaming the halls, and of Parry's involvement in a gang of ruthless sorcerers who torture fairies for sport. When Nimira discovers the spirit of a dashing young fairy gentleman is trapped inside the automaton's stiff limbs, waiting for someone to break the curse and set him free, the two fall in love. But it is a love set against a dreadful rac...