Reviews and Comments

The story was engaging enough to keep me reading, and I finished the book pretty fast. However, the characters imho would have needed more development and depth, the plot and characters' decisions sometimes didn't make sense at all, and the ending felt kinda abrupt and rushed. The writing style was at times confusing and repetitive. In the end I was left with so many questions concerning the murders, the whys and hows. On the plus side, we get queer Black characters and a glimpse into 1920s Harlem. I will certainly read the next book in the series because I want to know how it all further develops - the story as well as the writing.

Book 3 in the Laetitia Rodd series... When googling for info on another one, I learnt that the author has passed away last year. How tragic, and how sad that there'll be no more Laetitia Rodd mysteries. I greatly enjoyed book 1 and 2.

This was a quite entertaining historical murder mystery, let's see what book 2 has to offer.

I'm enjoying this so far. I think I'm gonna continue reading the series if book 1 proves to be entertaining til the end.

Cosy (?) regency era mystery, let's go! I've been keen on reading this for a while, one reason being that it's a series of 15 (fifteen!) books, and I just love reading historical mysteries, so the more of it, the better.

Uhm... nope.

Not even 100 pages in and the characters are annoying me so much that I don't really want to read on... I don't care what happens to them. I also do not particularly enjoy the writing style, so I guess this book is not for me.

This goes to the DNF pile for now, not because it's bad - I actually like it so far and even recently bought book 2 - but it's one of those books you need to be in the right mood & mindset for, and well, I'm currently not. It's slow and meandering, with lots of mythology and stories, very interesting, but not what I want or need right now.