Genre:
Historical / Suspense
Historical / Suspense
The Gray Chamber
True Colors book 4
by Grace Hitchcock
| Step into True Colors -- a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime Will Edyth prove her sanity before it is too late? On Blackwell Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving. With her late father’s fortune under her uncle’s care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Foster does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to society’s demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though, her uncle whisks Edyth off to the women’s lunatic asylum just weeks before her birthday. Do any of Edyth’s friends care that she disappeared? At the asylum she meets another inmate, who upon discovering Edyth’s plight, confesses that she is Nellie Bly, an undercover journalist for The World. Will either woman find a way to leave the terrifying island and reclaim her true self? ISBN-13: 9781643522357 They say she's crazy...but is she really...? |  This Book received a 4.5 Bark rating.
 Grace Hitchcock |
I've seriously been getting into the True Colors series and The Gray Chamber was no exception. Grace Hitchcock's second offering in the series was exciting, romantic, and creepy. Really, did you think you could have a book partially set in the women's lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island and not have some creep factor going on?
One of the most shocking things about the 1800s is just how little it took for a woman to be committed to a mental asylum. No joke, more than one woman was committed for reading novels. Good thing I didn't live back then! Journalist Nellie Bly went undercover as patient at Blackwell Island and big changes were made at the facility because of her testimony as to what went on. My school history book mentioned Nellie Bly's work, but, as so often happens with fiction, The Gray Chamber really brought the whole dark business home.
Grace Hitchcock has a winner in The Gray Chamber. I very much enjoyed reading it, from the quirky antics of the heroine to the danger in the asylum to the final showdown with the villain. If you are into historical fiction based on real history you should check out this book from Grace Hitchcock, as well as the rest of the books in the True Colors series...
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives The Gray Chamber by Grace Hitchcock a 4.5 Bark rating.
One of the most shocking things about the 1800s is just how little it took for a woman to be committed to a mental asylum. No joke, more than one woman was committed for reading novels. Good thing I didn't live back then! Journalist Nellie Bly went undercover as patient at Blackwell Island and big changes were made at the facility because of her testimony as to what went on. My school history book mentioned Nellie Bly's work, but, as so often happens with fiction, The Gray Chamber really brought the whole dark business home.
Grace Hitchcock has a winner in The Gray Chamber. I very much enjoyed reading it, from the quirky antics of the heroine to the danger in the asylum to the final showdown with the villain. If you are into historical fiction based on real history you should check out this book from Grace Hitchcock, as well as the rest of the books in the True Colors series...
Tell Tale Book Reviews gives The Gray Chamber by Grace Hitchcock a 4.5 Bark rating.
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