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The Eterna Files

av Leanna Renee Hieber

Serier: Eterna Files (1)

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Appointed by Queen Victoria to a special division of the Metropolitan police to investigate paranormal phenomena, skeptic Harold Spire and believer Rose Everhart team up to find a survivor from a laboratory that was researching immortality.
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Interesting historical paranormal, with mysterious doings at the center of it. 2 rival organizations in America and Britain struggle for the control of research into immortality. I'm not in love with the characters, but the setting is both bizarre and fantastic. Well written. ( )
  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
This is the 2nd book from this publisher that has irritated me. However, I finished this book, and I didn’t get irritated until the end. The characters are colorful and distinct, each with their own personalities and voice, so I never felt confused about who was talking or thinking. The descriptions of places and architecture fully immersed me into the world of the story, which takes place in New York and London around 1882. Overall, I enjoyed it, right up to end, if you can call it an ending. I can’t even say it’s a cliffhanger ending. It just sort of ends, but without a completion to the story.

That’s a real problem for me. I have to really love a story to be ok with that. Though I liked The Eterna Files, I didn’t truly love it, and therefore I will not be anxiously awaiting the next book to find out what happens. I’m not even 100% sure there’s going to be a sequel. The ending was that vague.

If you enjoy Paranormal or Urban Fantasy, and vague endings aren’t necessarily unsatisfying to you, then you’ll probably enjoy this book as much, if not more, than I did. When the sequel comes out, if there is one, I might check it out from the library just to see what happens, but there are so many other great books that I’m looking forward to reading, I don’t think I’ll go out of my way. ( )
  FortifiedByBooks | Jan 5, 2021 |
The Eterna Files is a Victorian era fantasy setting with the main viewpoints switching between the American team and British team that are each searching for a cure to death. The murder of Lincoln and a nation’s grief started it for the US and Britain soon followed since the upstart Americans can’t have such technology and Queen Victoria is also grieving for Prince Albert. Clara Templeton, heads the group of Americans working on the Eterna project and is reeling from the sudden death of teammate and secret sweetheart. Clara can speak to ghosts and is trying to communicate with him in order to find out how he and the other team mates dies while working on a solution. The British team is headed by a policeman that is not happy to be pulled of a large murder investigation to run this department that he is very skeptical about.

The book spends time shifting focus between the two teams and introducing everyone on the team and why each member is important to the team. Of course team members still keep secrets from each other only to have them come out at inopportune times. The setting is very much a character in the story and social roles and societal pressures are constantly remarked upon. Just as the book gets going a third player in the race to the Eterna Compound starts working against each of them while keeping themselves hidden from view.

The idea of the story is interesting but even with the action it dragged a bit to me. And with this being the start of a series there is no good conclusion at the end of the book and much of a feeling of waiting for the next book of the series.

Digital copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley ( )
  Glennis.LeBlanc | Jan 6, 2020 |
If you've read Hieber's Strangely Beautiful and Magic Most Foul series then you know what to expect from this book. They're set in the same universe and in a similar enough time frame that there is quite a bit of overlap. I don't think you'll miss much if you don't get the references to certain people or places, but you'll certainly enjoy those references if you are familiar. As with those other books this is steampunk/gaslamp/occult fiction with a huge sense of place. I actually liked this book a bit better than I did the previous series, mostly because quite a bit of its magic is dependent upon certain places in America. (Provided by publisher) ( )
  tldegray | Sep 21, 2018 |
I really wanted to like this book. I got on board with the concept as I began reading and had high hopes on it being interesting. Unfortunately, after reading 200 pages I realized that I had no interest in any of the characters and I was still waiting for the plot to actually grab me. :-( ( )
  JackDaniel42 | Aug 14, 2016 |
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The truth is out there.

Forgive my cheesy tag-line, but when you write a conspiracy-laden novel about secret government agencies investigating the paranormal, and put the word “files” in the title, my mind is always going to think of Chris Carter’s television series “The X Files.” The Eterna Files by Leanna Renee Hiebler is something quite different, however. It’s more of an historical novel about the paranormal, and while is was fast paced and inventive it didn’t quite live up to my hopes. It’s a good book, but I think that it could have been great.

Queen Victoria picks Harold Spire of the Metropolitan Police, a dedicated and conscientious detective, to lead Special Branch Division Omega, whose task is to secretly investigate supernatural cases. He is assisted by researcher Rose Everheart and a team made up of scientists, scholars, assassins, con-men, and circus-performers. Their first job is find something called The Eterna Compound, which promises to grant immortality. The lab in New York City where it was developed was destroyed, but the Queen is certain that some of the compound still exists.

A secret American team is also searching for Eterna. Clara Templeton, a medium who helped start the project at the behest of Mary Todd Lincoln after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, leads her team, along with her guardian Senator Rupert Brooke. They are joined by Franklin Fordham, who is a “sensitive”, and Louis Dupris, Clara’s secret lover, a practitioner of Voodoo, Voudoun, who died in the Eterna accident. His ghost haunts his twin brother, Andre, who takes on his brother’s identity.

There is a lot more than this going on, as each team races to secure Eterna for their own county, and the novel moves back and forth covering each group's trials and tribulations. I give Ms. Hieber credit for ambition, and as I said earlier, the pace of the novel is quick, and the primary characters, particularly Spire, Everheart and Clara, are well-drawn. I feel that Ms. Hieber may have bitten-off more than she can chew, however. It certainly is possible to write a novel with a lot of characters and a lot of plot-lines and make it work, but it’s tricky, and The Eterna Files, while good, didn’t quite hit the mark. The other main problem I had with this book is that it doesn't really end as much as it just stops. I can fully understand and appreciate that if a novel is going to have a sequel, then the whole story may not be told in just one book, but I believe that a single novel has to stand alone to be considered a total success. The Eterna Files was good enough for me to enjoy it, and Ms. Hieber showed me enough that I look forward to the next book, assuming there is one, but I can’t give this one a rave review.

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