3.77 AVERAGE

mysterious medium-paced
adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 Progress! Plot wise and romance wise.
Mina had a clue of who her father is and why it's tied to the bookstore.
Finally she claims the hearts of all her gents, so now we can have some shenanigans of the sharing I guess.

The mystery this time was interesting in the setting but plenty easy to guess.

Still, it was an enjoyable read... What can I say, I am hooked and will take no judgments. 

This series starts so well and moves so fast that I can't stop reading them. I also want to point out that the author has been updating the covers to something so much more beautiful than the originals.

This is a good tale about our book boyfriends being alive. It is a reverse harem. However, it has a story not just spice, which I prefer. This series is not fully stand alone. Each book has it's own mystery that is resolved by the end of each book. I recommend reading these in order.

If you were to give this a try, you would laugh, squirm, guffaw in shock and generally have a good time.
dark funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

emmina's review

3.75
adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
lighthearted mysterious

I love this series.   Such a nice mix of cozy mystery and spicy romance.  Mina seems to be coming into her own on how to deal with her boys.  And we got a new fictional character,
Lydia Bennett
in this one.  

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adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I enjoyed this book! I think it resembled an Agatha Christie with them confined to Cynthias house the majority of the book while solving the murder. I appreciate the continuing development of the relationships, the mystery of the bookshop itself, and the impending blindness. Holmes has a lot of elements to juggle and she seems to do a great job at keeping up their evolutions so far. 

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_all_by_my_shelf_'s review

2.0
funny lighthearted slow-paced

Didn’t love this one! The first 40% was very slow in my opinion and I’d figured out who the killer was by then.
I do love that Mina was able to accept who she was becoming, and that the her and boys told each other they loved each other:)