A review by tessisreading2
The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig

3.0

This was a fun, fluffy, easy read. It didn't have the same "oomph" as its predecessor, probably because the nineteenth-century mystery was less mysterious - the identity of the Black Tulip was fairly easy to figure out, whereas the revelation of the Pink Carnation's identity in the previous book was exciting and fairly unexpected. Additionally, Colin and Eloise's relationship

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continues on a will-they-or-won't-they track that could easily get obnoxious.

He reads kind of like Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones, though - generic Darcy-inspired British romance hero - the result of which is that he lacks enough personality to convince me that I care about the resolution of his relationship with Eloise.