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fromjuliereads's review
I skim read massive chunks of this to see if it was worth it to keep going. But for me, it just isn't. I literally only care about the elephant at this point and he's constantly forgotten in the story.
It's all about how this Inspector cannot let things go, keeps working on a case even though he is retired - which couldn't that be illegal? And there are huge boring sections about retirement, backstory, elephant info, and infertility. So much discussion of how they wished they could have kids and couldn't. But don't worry - a cousin has a daughter who got pregnant. You can immediately tell where that's going - they are going to take the baby and raise it I guess.
Sure there is a murder with a mystery element to it. But I just didn't care. There was no connection to any of the characters, little character development in terms of showing the reader who the characters are. Just not for me.
It's all about how this Inspector cannot let things go, keeps working on a case even though he is retired - which couldn't that be illegal? And there are huge boring sections about retirement, backstory, elephant info, and infertility. So much discussion of how they wished they could have kids and couldn't. But don't worry - a cousin has a daughter who got pregnant. You can immediately tell where that's going - they are going to take the baby and raise it I guess.
Sure there is a murder with a mystery element to it. But I just didn't care. There was no connection to any of the characters, little character development in terms of showing the reader who the characters are. Just not for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Medical content, Infertility, Grief, and Murder
Minor: Pregnancy
Animal neglect
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