funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

alysiarobinson's review

4.0

This was a super fun December read! It is a murder mystery set up like an advent calendar, where you read a chapter a day and over christmas Ernest (our detective) exposes what went down. This was my first of his books, and there were quite a few references to past books, which didn’t prevent you from following what was going on in this book, but I got the feeling it would have probably been a bit helpful to have read the previous books first.

As I’m not a big mystery book reader, I really enjoyed that the detective very explicitly lays things out for us, like hey make note of this because it’s a clue, or this is our comprehensive suspect list (aka no one is going to just randomly appear at the end having done it). Though I wasn’t able to tie it all together before Ernest laid it all out for us in the end, I could look back and see how he would have been able to put it all together which was fun. The final chapters were major page turners and had some plot twists I did not see coming!

This was an awesome holiday mystery read, and I really loved the advent calendar set up, i was excited each day to get another piece of the story!
dark funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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katiebookcase's review

3.0

3.5
funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I enjoyed the fun christmas twist on the series. Another murder I couldn't have solved myself. Love seeing Erin, and happy to see more of Juliette and Ern's story.

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mysterious relaxing medium-paced
funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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