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British Murder by Leslie Meier
3.0
I was very excited when I saw someone I follow on Goodreads review this book based on the cover alone. It was so cute, and I love all things British so I was prepared for some great cozy mysteries. This was not the case, and I was a little peeved I wasted so much time on these two stories I really did not care about.
These two stories were previously published and are like the 17th and 23rd book in the series so they are set five years apart. If you have not read the books, which i have not, there were a lot of characters and the stories lacked interest to me. The first story was Lucy and her friends going on a college trip and the leader of the group dies. They think it could have just been an allergic reaction, but there is a mystery going on. The descriptions of London were cool, and that was the only portion of the book I liked. One of her friends meets a rich earl or duke, and they both love hats. Lucy solves the mystery of what happened to the leader of the group, and I thought it was kind of strange.
The second book is five years later and Lucy is depressed so she goes with her friend to see the guy she met in the first book that likes hats. So there is going to be a hat show and there is another mystery going on at the house they are staying in. Someone is found dead, and there are other things going on in this family. Their problems were mundane and i ended up skimming this second book a lot towards the end. I grew bored at the story, and there was nothing about the mystery I wanted to know more about. It just seems like Lucy has bad luck and people die when she is around, and she should just stop trying to solve mysteries because if she stayed at her house, all of these people would probably be alive.
I did not like that these were books so late in the series and that they were published so far apart in the timeline of the books. It was also really long for a cozy mystery omnibus. The formatting was so bad, and I struggled to read the stories. I hope this will be fixed during publishing.
I do not plan to read more of this series, and I do not recommend this unless you have read all of the books before and between so you know what the heck is going on. I have not had any luck with cozy mysteries, it may not the genre for me.
Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Press for the advanced review copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own and given freely upon my own volition.
These two stories were previously published and are like the 17th and 23rd book in the series so they are set five years apart. If you have not read the books, which i have not, there were a lot of characters and the stories lacked interest to me. The first story was Lucy and her friends going on a college trip and the leader of the group dies. They think it could have just been an allergic reaction, but there is a mystery going on. The descriptions of London were cool, and that was the only portion of the book I liked. One of her friends meets a rich earl or duke, and they both love hats. Lucy solves the mystery of what happened to the leader of the group, and I thought it was kind of strange.
The second book is five years later and Lucy is depressed so she goes with her friend to see the guy she met in the first book that likes hats. So there is going to be a hat show and there is another mystery going on at the house they are staying in. Someone is found dead, and there are other things going on in this family. Their problems were mundane and i ended up skimming this second book a lot towards the end. I grew bored at the story, and there was nothing about the mystery I wanted to know more about. It just seems like Lucy has bad luck and people die when she is around, and she should just stop trying to solve mysteries because if she stayed at her house, all of these people would probably be alive.
I did not like that these were books so late in the series and that they were published so far apart in the timeline of the books. It was also really long for a cozy mystery omnibus. The formatting was so bad, and I struggled to read the stories. I hope this will be fixed during publishing.
I do not plan to read more of this series, and I do not recommend this unless you have read all of the books before and between so you know what the heck is going on. I have not had any luck with cozy mysteries, it may not the genre for me.
Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Press for the advanced review copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own and given freely upon my own volition.