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pn_hinton's review
2.0
I’m a huge fan of cozy mysteries and make no apologies for it. This was the first I had heard of set in a school setting so that alone intrigued me.
The beginning was rocky for me. I don’t know if the writing style wasn’t engaging enough or I was reading it at a bad time. Either way, it took roughly a quarter of the book to interest me. By the end I was staying up a bit later to get a few more chapters in. But part of that too was to get it finished.
One bone of contention is that I didn’t care about the main character. I wanted to but it never happened. Even giving the benefit that this may be due to it being the first in the series, there was no connection. Her personality was all around inconsistent. The only steady trait was her stubbornness. This translated into a complete lack of survival skills which quick became tiresome. This resulted in her almost getting killed a lot of times. I cared more about the secondary characters than I did her and would have loved to hear more about them.
In truth, I can’t call the ending predictable since it took me the better part to piece it together. Once the ‘reveal’ for the Coach was done the pieces did fall into place quickly for me. The ending seemed a bit corny and forced. It wasn’t natural at all by any stretch of the imagination. I am unsure if I would continue this series since the feeling it left me with was a little bit less than ‘meh’. I won’t avoid the books if they come across me, but it is unlikely I will actively seek them out.
The beginning was rocky for me. I don’t know if the writing style wasn’t engaging enough or I was reading it at a bad time. Either way, it took roughly a quarter of the book to interest me. By the end I was staying up a bit later to get a few more chapters in. But part of that too was to get it finished.
One bone of contention is that I didn’t care about the main character. I wanted to but it never happened. Even giving the benefit that this may be due to it being the first in the series, there was no connection. Her personality was all around inconsistent. The only steady trait was her stubbornness. This translated into a complete lack of survival skills which quick became tiresome. This resulted in her almost getting killed a lot of times. I cared more about the secondary characters than I did her and would have loved to hear more about them.
In truth, I can’t call the ending predictable since it took me the better part to piece it together. Once the ‘reveal’ for the Coach was done the pieces did fall into place quickly for me. The ending seemed a bit corny and forced. It wasn’t natural at all by any stretch of the imagination. I am unsure if I would continue this series since the feeling it left me with was a little bit less than ‘meh’. I won’t avoid the books if they come across me, but it is unlikely I will actively seek them out.
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