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Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
by Rhys Bowen
This was another charming visit with Lady Georgiana and her dashing beau, who is now her husband.
I've been a longtime fan of the series thus far, and enjoy when the books has taken in place in other settings than the Georgie's main haunts of London and Scotland.
In this case the setting of pre-WWII Kenya is a tricky one to navigate. Bowen offers an author's note in the beginning to acknowledge that the way the natives are spoken to and spoken about by many characters is indicative of sentiments at the time, which is helpful to keep in mind.
Overall this felt like the thinnest of all the books in terms of plot and characters. There were large swaths of the book that were just various people uttering shock and dismay at the reveal of a dead person, which I suppose would just be telling instead of showing if Georgie summed it up instead, but I found myself skimming those parts a bit. I also guessed the killer when the crime scene was first introduced, which is rare for me in a Her Royal Spyness book, but there were other unexpected details. But many of the details were offered in a brief wrap-up that made me feel like this book needed to be finished rather hastily, which if you're publishing multiple books a year, could be the case.
Still a treat, but mostly because of all the charming books that came before.
I've been a longtime fan of the series thus far, and enjoy when the books has taken in place in other settings than the Georgie's main haunts of London and Scotland.
In this case the setting of pre-WWII Kenya is a tricky one to navigate. Bowen offers an author's note in the beginning to acknowledge that the way the natives are spoken to and spoken about by many characters is indicative of sentiments at the time, which is helpful to keep in mind.
Overall this felt like the thinnest of all the books in terms of plot and characters. There were large swaths of the book that were just various people uttering shock and dismay at the reveal of a dead person, which I suppose would just be telling instead of showing if Georgie summed it up instead, but I found myself skimming those parts a bit. I also guessed the killer when the crime scene was first introduced, which is rare for me in a Her Royal Spyness book, but there were other unexpected details. But many of the details were offered in a brief wrap-up that made me feel like this book needed to be finished rather hastily, which if you're publishing multiple books a year, could be the case.
Still a treat, but mostly because of all the charming books that came before.