Because of her lack of feelings she also isn’t very tactful and often doesn’t follow the rules of society very well.

Sometimes there might be a faraway pang that causes her to examine what she might be feeling but these are more curiosities than anything else. She doesn’t experience great happiness or great sadness or other feelings. As a consequence Dora tends to feel things in a muted way.

Dora is a character with a curse on her–a fae lord came and stole half of her soul when she was a child due to an arrangement her mother had made before she was ever born. Or maybe it’s a fantasy book in the guise of a Regency Romance–the two are given equal weight to the story here. This is exactly what it sounds like – a Regency-ish Romance with magic and the fantastic. Oh, this was such a delightful read and I’m so glad I happened across one of my friends discussing it on twitter or else it would have remained off of my radar. Pick up Half a Soul, and be stolen away into debut author Olivia Atwater’s charming, magical version of Regency England! Pride and Prejudice meets Howl’s Moving Castle in this enthralling historical fantasy romance, where the only thing more meddlesome than faeries is a marriage-minded mama. If Dora’s reputation can survive both her ongoing curse and her sudden connection with the least-liked man in all of high society, then she may yet reclaim her normal place in the world… but the longer Dora spends with Elias Wilder, the more she begins to suspect that one may indeed fall in love, even with only half a soul. Lord Elias Wilder is handsome, strange, and utterly uncouth-but gossip says that he regularly performs three impossible things before breakfast, and he is willing to help Dora restore her missing half. Dora’s only goal for the London Season this year is to stay quiet and avoid upsetting her cousin’s chances at a husband… but when the Lord Sorcier of England learns of her condition, she finds herself drawn ever more deeply into the tumultuous concerns of magicians and faeries.

Ever since a faerie cursed her, Theodora Ettings has had no sense of fear, embarrassment, or even happiness-a condition which makes her sadly prone to accidental scandal.

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