Menagerie is a dark book set in a word where mythical creatures are real and a known but dangerous part of the population. Since an event known as The Reaping, where thousands of human children died because of a fae plot against humans. These creatures, even half humans like shapeshifters, have no rights, not even those accorded to animals.  They are kept in zoos, menageries, private collections—where they’re used for hunting and other things—or scientific organisations who use them for experiments and drug testing. Delilah is a small town girl who visits a travelling menagerie on her birthday and is shocked to see a young werewolf being badly treated. Her rage at the maltreatment brings out the beast in her; she changes into something that looks like one of these strange creatures and attacks the man responsible. She suddenly finds herself stripped of her human trappings, dispossessed and thrown into jail where she is later sold to the very menagerie that caused her fury. Fear of … [Read more...]