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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
mysterious
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very well written (although I did the audio so cannot speak to grammatical or typo errors).
Nice character development. Good mystery. Mystery does come to conclusion and loose ends are tied at the end. No cliffhanger.
Lacking in the romance department for me.According to google, they never get together so this is the end of the series for me.
Nice character development. Good mystery. Mystery does come to conclusion and loose ends are tied at the end. No cliffhanger.
Lacking in the romance department for me.
I'm told the series gets better.
But I can't make myself finish this.
I don't even remember the MC's name. Nope.
But I can't make myself finish this.
I don't even remember the MC's name. Nope.
It is rare that I read a book this recent; publication date this September. It was quite entertaining.
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-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
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
veronica is so wild and stoker is obsessed and pretends not to be. the mystery part to this totally caught me off guard, but it absolutely fits!! i love these two and i can't wait to read the rest :')
3.5
A Curious Beginning is a bit like a non-paranormal Parasol Protectorate, except that Veronica Speedwell is no Alexia Tarabotti. I found her nowhere near as approachable. Frankly, I found Veronica emotionless and over the top in her forwardness. What's more, I was excessively put off by how anachronistic her whole personality was. She held very modern ideals and went about behaving in a very free and modern way that I find hard to believe would even have been possible for a woman in 1887.
I appreciate that she was Sherlock Holmes smart and I did find her and the book in general amusing, but the whole thing just never really peaked for me. The entire read was just sort of a middle of the road, never bored, but never engrossed kind of middling experience. It felt like a copy of something else, I'm afraid, with some of the spark lost in the translation.
None of this was helped by the fact that book starts strong, with a break-in, adventure and murder, then the main characters run about doing little of importance for most of the book and the plot doesn't come back around to anything pertinent until the end.
I didn't dislike it and the writing is pretty good. I'll likely read the next one, but I wasn't blown away either.
A Curious Beginning is a bit like a non-paranormal Parasol Protectorate, except that Veronica Speedwell is no Alexia Tarabotti. I found her nowhere near as approachable. Frankly, I found Veronica emotionless and over the top in her forwardness. What's more, I was excessively put off by how anachronistic her whole personality was. She held very modern ideals and went about behaving in a very free and modern way that I find hard to believe would even have been possible for a woman in 1887.
I appreciate that she was Sherlock Holmes smart and I did find her and the book in general amusing, but the whole thing just never really peaked for me. The entire read was just sort of a middle of the road, never bored, but never engrossed kind of middling experience. It felt like a copy of something else, I'm afraid, with some of the spark lost in the translation.
None of this was helped by the fact that book starts strong, with a break-in, adventure and murder, then the main characters run about doing little of importance for most of the book and the plot doesn't come back around to anything pertinent until the end.
I didn't dislike it and the writing is pretty good. I'll likely read the next one, but I wasn't blown away either.