Audiobook Review: Beecham's Infirmary for the Affluent Afflicted

 

A Victorian Gothic Paranormal Romance Novella by Briar Somerset

In a town where health is currency and longing is lure, a reluctant investigator and seamstress must uncover whether hunger will anchor a man already slipping into the dark. Now an immersive duet audio experience available on Audible, Spotify, and wherever audiobooks are sold.

Behind the decrepit doors of an infirmary said to offer miraculous cures to London's ailing elite, people are vanishing. Private Investigator and estranged heir to French aristocracy Jacques Valmont is summoned across the channel to sleuth, despite the lingering sickness of his own—one of grief that stirs in his blood and shadows his mind.

Amidst the fog and fever, he finds an unlikely ally in Annie, the quick-witted seamstress working next door to Beecham's Infirmary, whose presence seems to quiet the storm inside him. When she suggests the only way to breach the infirmary's guarded walls is becoming a patient himself, Annie's grandmother warns them both of curses that fester with longing. Unnatural aches that transform a person entirely, if not quelled.

As Jacques nears the truth, desire and dread twist together. Annie may be the last tether holding him to his humanity—or the final thread that unravels it.

My Review

Jacques and Annie make quite the unique pair. They are like the odd couple. I like them. I am very interested to see how their relationship will grow in the next book. Which I need the next book now. Just as things were really getting interesting, it ended.

I have a few ideas of what is happening in the mysterious infirmary, but I am very curious to see if I am right in the next book.  If you want a real immersive experience, you will want to listen to the audiobook. It is narrated by Christopher Tester and Krys Janae. These two really gave a voice to Jacques and Annie.