hkburke2 's review for:

The Midnight Hour by Elly Griffiths
2.75

I liked the idea behind this one, with the switch to the female narrator and focus on the female characters. But it felt like the schoolhouse rock version of feminism, as if the author read "this is what feminists read/did/said in xyz year" and then replicated that for the characters without making anything fit their existing character traits. So the retconning continues here, for me, and madness this feel flat and dull. I know this author can write strong women because she does in other series, but trying to mash them into this existing series and onto these existing characters didn't work for me.