A review by blacksentai
Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar by Kate Saunders

2.0

So this book is all about fear of homosexuality, and it just so happens that all the gay characters die. On top of that, the murderer is someone who was born in the worst of poverty and became rich and wants to help poor people out. So obviously that man is evil. The politics of this book seem accidentally awful. Like the author didn't think about what was being said through all of the characters actions. Also, the way the author goes out of her way to describe one gay male character as womanly is just too much. She beats you over the head with it. Like, it's supposed to be subtle, but it's a hammer. And it's bad. And I know she is trying to do a thing where the book is supposed to feel like it is written by a woman in the 1860s but it doesn't work nearly as well in this book as in the last.