I had been saving Julia Seales' debut novel A Most Agreeable Murder (#1,261) as a special treat. Reader, I was most disagreeably disappointed. It promised a Regency romance style murder mystery with an enticing cover. The contents, sad to say, did not quite measure up.
I think Ms. Seales tried too hard. The results came across as "cutsie" rather than tongue in cheek with "fainties" and "squelchies" in a fairytale setting. A younger sister as an unidentified werewolf? The only weather in the village was rain and violent hailstorms? A proper young lady whose sole ambition was to solve murders? The parents as caricatures of the senior Bennetts? It was all a bit much for my taste.
It might be perfect for some readers, but I am not one.
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