The London Seance Society

The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner

April 2024

3 out of 5

Books N Hooks Book Club

"The mission of the London Séance Society is to provide clairvoyance and mediumship services throughout the city of London, with the intent of providing peace to mourners and satisfying the populace’s growing curiosity about the afterlife."

The London Seance Society is about a young girl named Lenna who goes to Paris to unravel her sister’s death by meeting Vaudeline, a famous spiritualist. While uncovering her sister’s death she ends up learning more about her sister and secrets that were kept from her. Seances are held with families that also want answers to their loved ones passing, but in the end the seance that is held for her sister revels answers to the mystery of her sisters death and the death of a powerful man in The London Seance Society.

"Spirits are unpredictable, especially the ones we seek—the victims."

• Ghosts/ Seance/ Death

• Mystery

• Romance (aspects)

• Dual POV

• Dual time (one chapter in the future and one in the past)

This book seemed very interesting by reading the Good Reads synopsis but it did not do it for me. It seemed like the story was all over the place, the characters were hard to keep up with, and most of all the changing of time between each chapter was confusing. The ending of the book is what made it better and finding out the past of her sister and the secrets that were kept.

“Something cannot be an illusion if it still exists after we think it has gone.”