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SmokeSeries

This series transports readers to an alternative England where individuals with impure thoughts exhale smoke as a mark of their moral decay. While the nobility is exempt, lower classes are steeped in sin and soot. The narrative follows young protagonists at an elite boarding school who discover their education is built on lies, a truth that could cost them their lives. Amidst the dangers and wonders of a volatile London, the story explores themes of forbidden love, desperate pursuits, and the blurred lines between right and wrong.

Smoke
Soot

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  1. 1

    Smoke

    • 560 pages
    • 20 hours of reading
    3.0(173)Add rating

    Readers of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Arcadia by Iain Pears are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta’s thrilling blend of Dickensian historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to discover startling wonders—and dangerous secrets. In an alternate Victorian England those who are wicked are marked by the smoke that pours out of their bodies. The aristocracy are clean, proof of their virtue and right to rule, while the lower classes are drenched in sin and soot. Thomas Argyle is the only son of a wayward aristocrat. Charlie Cooper is his best friend. When Thomas finds himself under the boot heel of a sadistic headboy in the treacherous halls of their elite boarding school, he and Charlie begin to question the rules of their society. Then the boys meet Livia, the daughter of a wealthy and powerful family. She leads them to a secret laboratory where they learn that smoke may not be as it seems, and together they set out to uncover the truth about their world.

    Smoke
  2. 2

    Soot

    • 256 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
    3.3(188)Add rating

    Mesmerising, electrifying, Dickensian, dystopian - SOOT welcomes us into a world in which your sin is visible.

    Soot