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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens
4.0
I've been eyeing this series for quite some time already. I think it must have been ever since I watched Enola Holmes and landed in some sort of teenage girls detective mood. However, there were always other books getting in between. Until I could get a big chunk of the series at a heavily discounted price. And now today, finally, I had the time to start this series. I needed something light and relaxing, since we're buddy reading an epic adult fantasy, and this sounded just perfect.
And it actually kinda was. This book was exactly what I had hoped it would be and what I had expected it to be. I especially really enjoyed the writing style. Stevens really managed to give the book a casual, written by a teen, kinda sound. It was never wordy, never too novelly, it was very believable that this was the journal of a teenage girl writing down her adventures with her detective society at boarding school. The handwritten word list with explanations only enhanced that feeling.
The mystery in itself was maybe not even that spectacular, but it was entertaining and actually quite nicely done. The girls really seemed to take logical steps, in their own teenage way, and although they were sometimes a little quick to jump to conclusions what they did and thought actually made a lot of sense. I personally wasn't too busy trying to catch the killer myself, but my mind kinda followed the girls and didn't see them doing anything wrong or weird.
What I enjoyed the most though was the relationship between the girls and how they are clearly growing and learning. Not so much as detectives, but more as teenagers and girls. Because of small details and throw away lines we really got a very vivid idea of who these two girls are and why they would become friends and why they would sometimes clash. Their dynamic, their differences and how they completed each other was really well done and worked great on paper.
I can't wait to read the rest of the series!
And it actually kinda was. This book was exactly what I had hoped it would be and what I had expected it to be. I especially really enjoyed the writing style. Stevens really managed to give the book a casual, written by a teen, kinda sound. It was never wordy, never too novelly, it was very believable that this was the journal of a teenage girl writing down her adventures with her detective society at boarding school. The handwritten word list with explanations only enhanced that feeling.
The mystery in itself was maybe not even that spectacular, but it was entertaining and actually quite nicely done. The girls really seemed to take logical steps, in their own teenage way, and although they were sometimes a little quick to jump to conclusions what they did and thought actually made a lot of sense. I personally wasn't too busy trying to catch the killer myself, but my mind kinda followed the girls and didn't see them doing anything wrong or weird.
What I enjoyed the most though was the relationship between the girls and how they are clearly growing and learning. Not so much as detectives, but more as teenagers and girls. Because of small details and throw away lines we really got a very vivid idea of who these two girls are and why they would become friends and why they would sometimes clash. Their dynamic, their differences and how they completed each other was really well done and worked great on paper.
I can't wait to read the rest of the series!