My August reads

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Elizabeth Camden – Against the tide 4/5
Lydia Pallas is a translator at the US Navy and very happy with her safe and predictable life. But this is all about to change when she is contacted by Alexander Bainbridge to do some translation work. Soon she discovers Alexander is campaigning against the opium trade and some of the most dangerous criminals in the country and Lydia is in over her head.

A very entertaining novel set in the 19th century with a professional heroine who is not a schoolteacher or a nurse (hehe) Lydia is a great character, brave and intelligent. I read many raving reviews about this novel and the reviewers were especially fond of the hero 'Bane'. However, he left me rather cold, I found him too selfish and reckless at times. The unusual and interesting background really made this novel for me.

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