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brooke4131's review
5.0
Ok, stop whatever you are doing and go get this book. Yes, it's that good. The Tomb of the Honey Bee is the second in the Posie Parker series and it's honestly the best book I've read in a long time.
Posie Parker is settling into her detective agency, the Grape Street Bureau, when socialite Lady Violet Boynton-Dale waltzes in and asks Posie to find her brother, Alaric. Alaric is a world famous explorer who has suddenly gone missing after changing his will. Drawn to the family manor, Posie quickly realizes that evil is lurking around every corner and when a famous novelist is murdered, she knows she must find Alaric before he meets a similar end.
I've been a long time fan of Agatha Chrisite and this book is very much in her style. This book keeps the plot moving with trips takes to an English manor, sunny Sicily, and finally to an excavation in Egypt. I was kept guessing right up until the end and am very much looking forward to Posie's next adventure!
Posie Parker is settling into her detective agency, the Grape Street Bureau, when socialite Lady Violet Boynton-Dale waltzes in and asks Posie to find her brother, Alaric. Alaric is a world famous explorer who has suddenly gone missing after changing his will. Drawn to the family manor, Posie quickly realizes that evil is lurking around every corner and when a famous novelist is murdered, she knows she must find Alaric before he meets a similar end.
I've been a long time fan of Agatha Chrisite and this book is very much in her style. This book keeps the plot moving with trips takes to an English manor, sunny Sicily, and finally to an excavation in Egypt. I was kept guessing right up until the end and am very much looking forward to Posie's next adventure!
nehashtyle's review
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
ferccarranza's review
2.0
The plot pushes you through the book because it is interesting enough. The setting and atmosphere are nice though not historically accurate. But Posie feels like an undeveloped character, people around her call her intuitive even though she is clueless half of the book. She can’t even figure out her love interest has moved on. The most frustrating bit of the story to me was the “Serafina” inscription on the bee coin. She goes asking people (about a really ancient, hundreds of years ancient coin) “Who is Serafina? Where can I find her? Is she protecting Alaric?”... why would a person dedicated to investigation assume that Serafina was a living person... what is wrong with her common sense.