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[crantz]

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<b>What's awesome about it:</b>
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Daughters of Mannerling

[thisbluespirit]

Fandom/Canon Name: Daughters of Mannerling by M.C. Beaton (Marion Chesney)
What's awesome about it: Do you expect, when picking up another slight, light-hearted Regency series to be confronted with a possessed/sentient beautiful but evil stately home? I certainly didn't and now I need to know more. Yuletide seems like my only hope.

Imagine Pemberley, but so evil it drives everyone into desperate deeds to possess it, up to and including murder. And once they do, it then tends to drive them to throw themselves (or other people) off the bannister and haunt the place.

How did it get that way? Is it just so in love with its own perfect proportions and beautiful landscaping? Built on a cursed site? What? Did it torment previous generations? What happens next? (The ending suggests that it'll just start the game again with the next generation). Does it survive into the post-stately home era and become a goverment department with the highest casualty rate and inter-office rivalry in the country? Or burn down and curse in turn a modern estate? I mean, these are questions I need to have answered. Does it get investigated over the years by ghost-hunters/detectives/eccentric government outfits? (Clearly there are some options for appropriate crossovers here.)

The series is fairly fun, too - if you've read an MC Beaton Regency, you know the kind of thing. But with added blink-inducing crack of an EVIL house. Which is, as you can tell, exactly the kind of crack I am here for.

Where to find: It's a very slight series - six books, but you could get through them in not much more than a day, and you'd probably only have to read the last couple to get the gist. It seems to have been relatively recently reprinted and available in libraries both here (in the UK) and in the US.

On Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/series/55378-the-daughters-of-mannerling

Re: Daughters of Mannerling

[marginaliana]

This sounds amaaaaaazing! And my library has the first one as an ebook - definitely going to check it out.

Re: Daughters of Mannerling

[thisbluespirit]

Yay! The books are fairly slight and random, but I enjoy them when I'm after lighter things - the concept of Mannerling, however, is pure gold & I hope it gets played with for Yuletide.

Re: Daughters of Mannerling

[(Anonymous)]

I tried for a couple of years to get Chesney's Six Sisters series, but I could never get matched! Good luck. :)

Re: Daughters of Mannerling

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! I've read the Six Sisters, too - I probably liked those the best, but Mannerling is just such a great concept, so here's hoping Yuletide might have fun with it.