I have just finished the last booked in the trilogy about the French Revolution. It is fabulous, and has the same characters in it as baroness Orczy had in her novel of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Sir Percy Blakeney, Margeurite and the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel along with their enemies which include vampires such as the main enemy Sophie. I found the book thrilling and such a good page turner that I have read it within a couple of days, and only put it down to do necessary tasks. The characters are well drawn especially the maid, turned mage, Eleanor. It was an excellent read throughout the novel and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I am sorry that the novel had to end, in a way, although I was eager to see what would happen. I just hope Genevieve Cogman writes more historical fantasy novels, especially ones set in the eighteenth century.

Damned is the third and final book in Cogman's enthralling Scarlet Pimpernel/vampire mash up - and what a finale! So well plotted and written that the reader is kept guessing all the way to the end, the peril and adventures never letting up.
Eleanor, once lady's maid turned member of the Order of the Scarlet Pimpernel turned mage and her companions are in a race against time. Now the vampires know Eleanor has magical powers they won't rest until she is dead, but her quest to find out where the secret which could destroy the vampires is buried is hampered by the net closing in around the Order, starting with allegations that Lady Blakeney is a spy. Meanwhile unrest is fermenting across England countered by ever more opressive measures and calls for the ban on vampires in public office to be lifted. Cue a book filled with daring escapes, dangerous encounters, old enermies turned allies, tested loyalties and forbidden love.
Cogan is one of the most inventive and talented fantasy writers published today - one of the joys of this series is that although it's as exertly plotted as The Hidden Library, as inventive and fun and original with equally memorable and perfectly drawn characters, it is a totally unique series, showing Cogman's versatility. I am sad to see the end of Eleanor, Charles and the rest of the Order, but very much looking forward to whatever Cogman decides to write next.