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Nell Gwynne's Scarlet Spy (2010)

by Kage Baker(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1596063254 (ISBN13: 9781596063259)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Far Territories

review 1: This is actually a 4.5 for me, only there is no such rating on Goodreads.Fabulous steampunk piece that overlaps with the Gentleman's Speculative Society (Not Less Than Gods). I recommend reading after the main Company series and Not Less Than Gods, BUT this also stands perfectly well on its on. Kage Baker wrote the most wonderful characters, men and women alike, but in particular she does not short women in any time period or profession, which is really nice, because you can focus on the people and the story rather than the weird antics of stunted characters.Heartily recommend - although I will warn that the subject matter and language is not for the faint of heart (if you can't guess by the Nell Gwynne reference, the ladies are employed in the oldest profession - in addit... moreion to more covert work).
review 2: The prostitutes at Nell Gwynne’s house are carefully selected women of many talents. Few know that their clients include not just the upper crust of London society, but The Gentlemen’s Speculative Society, who pay mainly, not for pleasures of the flesh, but for secrets and spycraft. Their payments to the madam seem to include technology which really seems to have no place in 19th-century Britain. When the Society arranges a job where the women are hired as entertainers at a very private auction, a (literal) bedroom farce ensues. less

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