A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #1)

by Charles Finch

[readingwithwrin]

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc of this book in exchange for my honest review. I did end up getting the audiobook from my library. 

I'm not going to lie I really struggled with this book and if I hadn't gotten the audiobook from my library I don't think I would have made it through it.

Not only is this book rather dry, it is also full of Americanism and the geography of the London in this book just doesn't make sense in my opinion. I found myself getting confused multiple times because of this. Also, the mystery itself was very easy to figure out, I think I had everything all put together quite awhile before the main character did.

I didn't really care for the main character or his friends and at times I found them to all be rather annoying. I know part of this is just because it's Victorian times and things had to be very formal. But I also think it comes back to the Americanism making things seem out of sorts I guess you would say.

I am glad I did read till the end as I did learn some about the university and a did like a few of the minor characters. I also realized while listening to this, that anymore I prefer to read Victorian era books from the servants or lower class point of view.

This book sadly just not ended up being for me, but I do know some people would really love this.