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And Only to Deceive
by Tasha Alexander
The heroine is very young (maybe 20 when the book starts, at most, is my guess). I like watching her grow up a bit over the course of the novel, though I wasn't really expecting this to be NA from the blurb. Her decision-making is... not unexpected, but also a little exhausting to watch sometimes.
The heroine is also very sheltered and very, very, very privileged. Sometimes I wanted to yell at her that if she doesn't want the burden of being a pretty decoration, maybe she could spend some time advocating for the rights of the exploited Africans and other Indigenous peoples who are the source of her wealth instead of just using the results of their labor to pay for her self-absorbed sulking and retail-therapy.
Anyway.
The writing flowed easily and I really do enjoy watching characters develop. The mystery was... let's just say that the character I most wanted to drop-kick off the island was the villain, to indicate my lack of surprise at how things wrapped up. But as I've said before, I don't really read mysteries for the mystery.
I'll probably read more in the series, but I'm not in a super hurry to do so.
The heroine is also very sheltered and very, very, very privileged. Sometimes I wanted to yell at her that if she doesn't want the burden of being a pretty decoration, maybe she could spend some time advocating for the rights of the exploited Africans and other Indigenous peoples who are the source of her wealth instead of just using the results of their labor to pay for her self-absorbed sulking and retail-therapy.
Anyway.
The writing flowed easily and I really do enjoy watching characters develop. The mystery was... let's just say that the character I most wanted to drop-kick off the island was the villain, to indicate my lack of surprise at how things wrapped up. But as I've said before, I don't really read mysteries for the mystery.
I'll probably read more in the series, but I'm not in a super hurry to do so.