Review: Things in Jars

Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Things in Jars follows the divine Bridie Devine, lady detective, she of the flaming red hair, green eyes and "biblical temper," as she tries to solve the case of a stolen child. Navigating the dark underbelly of Victorian London, Bridie, her giantess ladies maid Cora (one of Bridie's many rescues and the reason she hasn't had a good dinner in years), and the ghost of a fighter by who goes by Ruby, fear the child has been sold to one of those curiosity carnivals that display unusual humans. Just like the one that once held Cora like a slave. When it becomes apparent that the child may also have been stolen by the man who hired Bridie, the mystery of the child deepens. When the abusive son of the man who once bought her for a guinea when she was a ten-year-old child reenters the picture in the middle of her investigation, Bridie is even further unsettled. But Bridie is an indomitable woman and you can count on her to try to have a better outcome than her last case, where a little boy was killed by his captors, who deemed him just as valuable a specimen dead as alive.

I also took the time to listen to the audiobook, narrated Jacqueline Milne, and can highly recommend it. In fact, it resulted in my bumping my review up to five stars. A dark story full of colorful characters that makes the reader both appalled by how callous some people can be and how committed to justice others are.


I received a Digital Review Copy and a paper review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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