Reviewed by Amber (The Literary Phoenix) on
I think that this book series would make a good television show. Everyone loves period murder mysteries, right?
This one was pretty good. I don't read a lot of Victorian-era historical books, and I limit my mysteries because most of the time I guess the killer in the first 30% and then I'm bored for the rest of the book. That was not the case with this one - at 50% I had developed a (wrong) conspiracy theory about the killer, and at 75% I knew who it was, but they behaved differently. There's a lot of thrown-in details to point you in the wrong direction, which is fun/frustrating. I love who-done-its. I'm so, so bad at them when they're done properly like this.
I feel like books like this are why book clubs exist. The members read to page 200 and all argue about who the killer is and their theories about it and it's so much more fun to speculate about murderers than romantic pairings (I think).
Really solid read, not too much cheesy romance. There's romance, but it's subtle and well done - a rare find these days, where romance so often overrides the other genres. I liked it and I'm in for book 2.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 2 June, 2018: Finished reading
- 2 June, 2018: Reviewed