A review by iaerapythia
The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner

2.0

I was incredibly disappointed in this book. The mystery predictable, the characters poorly developed and bland. The most interesting character was Evie, the main character's dead sister. The murderer was the second most interesting character. The romance seemed...forced almost. It was unnecessary and the characters were not unique enough to make even a remotely compelling romance. The characters together were so bland that they might as well have been the same person. It didn't help that the reader missed their initial meeting and was just put in the middle of their budding relationship. Oh, they like each other. Okay. I wasn't invested in it at all. In fairness, I was not interested in them as characters either. They had the potential to be so interesting...but they weren't.

Then there was the stupid decisions they made. At one point, Lenna, the main character, traps the antagonist in a closet. She runs out of the building, speaks to a man who was friends with her deceased sister, runs back in the building to find documents (without asking the helpful man to stand guard or help her in any way), and proceeds to read everything after finding the documents IN THE HOUSE. So of course she is caught. I almost didn't finish the book and put it down then.

The only saving grace was the ending. It was predictable, but interesting. I would have liked to see more seances. We got two and the first one was just a flop.

There was also the weird choice to tell one perspective in third person and another perspective in first person.