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This New York City mystery is set in the #19thcentury

When your biggest packing problem is always too many books.🤷🏻‍♀️💝

What makes this book SO GOOD is the sense of time and place. Lyndsay Faye brings NYC to life from the language, smells and vivid descriptions of the young scrappy immigrants striving to eek out a life in the newly established USA. A great #LastRead for 2020. Happy New Year, friends🥂Here‘s to friendship, good health and fabulous new books in 2021🎉💓☮️

Finishing up my #LastReadof2020 I really enjoy HF set in mid 19th century NYC and this book is not disappointing♥️ #CountdownTo2021 🙌🏻✌🏽🌈

Just because I‘m on lockdown doesn‘t mean I can‘t be outdoors enjoying the gorgeous weather and picking up my 250th book of the year!! It‘s certainly the MOST books I‘ve read😁 I‘m curious what my audio to print ratio was/ I‘ll need to check 🤓 #ProudBookNerd

Ohhh, I like this already! The book begins with a dictionary of 1800‘s slang 🤓#HF #NYC

In 1840s New York City, Timothy Wilde's life is marked by tragedy, and it's about to get even more dangerous and complicated as he endeavors to solve a mystery and save children's lives. I'm not great at gauging what bits are spoilers, so I'll just say that I really enjoyed this one. There's one big red herring and some of the attitudes seem anachronistic, but the dialogue and dialect are skillfully done and the story compelling.

I really enjoyed this book, particularly on the back of reading The Alienist. The ending wasn‘t exactly satisfying and I wasn‘t crazy about some of the silly “immersion” language, but otherwise the story and characters were entertaining. Timothy is a great protagonist!

Thank you @Chrissyreadit for recommending this on audio. It was so good! Set in NYC in 1845, Timothy Wilde reluctantly becomes a copper star in the newly formed police force. He is set on the trail of a serial killer when a girl covered in blood runs into him as he returns home. Faye‘s use of the criminal slang of the time, called Flash, works really well. Although set in different historical periods, this reminded me a little of The Alienist.⬇️

#bookreport
I haven‘t completed anything. This was one of those weird weeks where I didn‘t pick up my print books and barely listened to audio. Please note that it is not the books, just me. 🙂

Here are the #Booked2019 prompts I have left to complete. I‘m pretty sure I can knock out eight books before the new year, even though I‘m having a bit of a slump this week. I got this! 🤓

In true Litsy fashion, I started looking at #Booked2020 too. I‘m sure I will end up signing up for it. 🤪

I devoured this book. It was fantastic! It was so hard to stop it just before the end so I could go to class haha

A story of the beginnings of #NYC police department and a serial killer on the loose, 1830s.

3.5-4 ⭐️
#historicalfiction #audiobook

Book 183/265 5/21/19

My latest #NYC read. #audiobook #morningcommute

If I‘m honest, maybe I didn‘t give you enough of a chance. I was dreading being with you. I‘m not proud of my behaviour, and I genuinely think that you deserve better. Your ratings are so high. I dreamed of your Gangs of New York level crime and violence, but, we just aren‘t meant to be. I‘m bailing. I might regret it, but not today. Sleep well, fair book. You‘ll find a new reader. 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

Timothy Wilde reluctantly accepts a job as a brand-new "copper star" (policeman) in NYC in 1845. One day on his beat he comes across a female child prostitute covered in blood. The ensuing investigation leads to the discovery of 19 bodies. Is it a serial killer who is targeting Irish Catholic children to push a political agenda? I loved the writing style -- the author does a great job with using vernacular that‘s true to the time period.

⭐⭐⭐⭐STARS
Intriguing and entertaining story about tha beginnings of the NYPD. The men who started the force of "copper stars". Timothy Wilde is charged with finding the killer of "kinchin-mabs" (slang for children taken into prostitution). Also the use of the street slang in the book is well done and worth the time to learn the terms, since many have entered the lexicon of today. Recommend! Will read more in this series

This was an interesting read! I liked this WAY more than Shadow and Dust. The last like 1/4 of the book has so many twists and turns! My only real complaint is that I really wanted more of Birdie. She just wasn't as developed as I wanted.

Back to working on my backlog of Lyndsay Faye books!

After blazing through Jane Steele, I became a bonafide Lyndsey Faye fangirl, so hit this one next, and oh is it great. Pretty brutal content -- avoid if you can't stand descriptions of violence against children --- but it's also beautifully written, intelligent, and rich with empathy. Historical fiction is never just about the past.

Easily my favorite fictional hunt for a #psychokiller. I highly recommend the audio. #octoberxfiles

Congratulations @Mommamanzi on reaching 30,000!
The Gods Of Gotham is my favorite book this year! History, New York, characters I cared about. If I won I think I would like book 2. But honestly, the all sound great! Can‘t wait to see what they are! (Hope you will share what is under the wrapping).

Well new in the never ending car saga. 1. Car broke down 56 miles from home. 2. Found a new car March 2nd 3. New car broke down on me on March 3rd. 4. Dealership towed car back and fixed it-picked it up yesterday. 5. Current situation: new car has died on me yet again and I am stuck in another parking lot 🙄😪 At least I have a book I just bought to keep me company.

1.Tie between The Gods of Gotham and The Fifth Season 2. 4 now, at one point I had 5 Aunts all named Mary. 3. “Ant” (Brooklyn/Queens accent) 4. Advil cold and sinus and a Moroccan style Brioche 5. ✋to you...and you... and you... #friyayintro

The audio version is Amazing! This is definitely a new favorite. NYC History, crime, human behavior, flawed characters that are so loveable, Highly recommend!!

Have to be honest—for the first half or so, I enjoyed the book but that was it. I enjoyed it & appreciated the obvious research that went into writing about policing in mid-19th century NYC. And then 💥 POW 💥 it got really good & I raced to the end. Wonderful, eccentric characters, great historical detail, & a plot full of twists & turns ultimately made this a good read. A bit slow to begin but the book finished strong & I‘ll read the next.

I have a few moments before it‘s time to start dinner so I‘m enjoying an espresso and a chapter or two.

“Hope, I‘ve discovered, is a sad nuisance.”

Really enjoying this book—the obvious attention to period detail & historical accuracy, the writing, and an engaging main character in Timothy Wilde.

Mixing it up and going with something completely different as I fear The Girl in the Tower is going to leave me with a bit of a book hangover—at least when it comes to fantasy.

This book was so well done. An awesome mystery (I never guessed the entire thing) and a great history lesson as well. I loved the setting (so Gangs of New York) and can‘t wait to read the 2nd book in the series.

I really don't need another series to keep up with, but this is set in 19th century NYC. How could I resist? #finished #copperstars #NYC

#riotgrams, #currentread

Really enjoyed this mystery with some history about the beginnings of the NYPD thrown in. Have enjoyed all the books I have read by this author so far. Looking forward to more.

I really enjoyed this book. The gritty ugliness of poverty in 1840's New York, the stark determination to move forward, the will to survive if not thrive. An amazing picture. I'll definitely re-read this one. For some the language has been a hang up but I have found that I really love it when a book expands my vocabulary.

No sun, and it's a little (OK really) windy, but not a bad Tuesday at the office.

Dr. Palsgrave was practically throwing off golden sparks, words clattering headlong down an iron railway, braking madly to keep himself in some sort of check.

We're damaged right down to the last man, I've discovered, we 1845 star policemen. Perforated. There's something the city hasn't given us yet, or has taken away, a lacking shaped a little different every time. We're all missing bits & pieces. For each of us, there's a gap no one can quite ignore.

You can bet if the cover screams "historical fiction" like this one then I will have #judgedbyitscover and bought it! The best historical fiction of New York City's history is a trilogy by Beverly Swerling. I hope when I get to this book it is as good. #marchintoreading

#17rainbowbooks

Sometimes overly descriptive, but nonetheless enthralling picture of New York In the aftermath of the great fires of 1845.

The cat says this book makes a good pillow. I question her judgment. I recommend reading it rather than sleeping on it. 😸

Finally finished this (with the help of my furry reading buddy). The crime at the center of this book's plot made it difficult to want to read it at times, which is why it took me awhile to finish, but it was a good book. Even though it is set in 1845, the prejudice against immigrants of a different religion seemed much too familiar, and makes me feel like this country has not made any progress with this issue.

Reading with my furry friend on a rainy day (when we can stay awake) #catsoflitsy 😻

Took the kids to the park. It is too windy to read outside so.... in my car it is.

Just a #SundayShelfie today. Absolutely loved #TheGodsofGotham by #LyndsayFaye. So lyrically rich and evocative. Absolutely an intense and awesome read.