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A review by dllluebbe
A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
2.0
I can't decide if Lenox is supposed to be a bumbling detective or a brilliant detective. The author keeps telling me he's brilliant, but then he really doesn't do anything to solve the case. He just sort of muddles around and asks people if they did it.
Also, there are so many things that throw me off in terms of world-building: Lenox and Lady Jane having no expectation of propriety for their servants? Lack of manners/propriety in nearly everyone? EVERYONE is drinking coffee? The times the author slips into decidedly modern (American) language? That Claude felt he "loved" a servant he was having a dalliance so much that he would agree to silence her in part out of jealousy? How Dr. McConnell, a drunk, disgraced doctor, uses such modern methods of criminology?
Not a terrible read, but just not for me.
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Also, there are so many things that throw me off in terms of world-building: Lenox and Lady Jane having no expectation of propriety for their servants? Lack of manners/propriety in nearly everyone? EVERYONE is drinking coffee? The times the author slips into decidedly modern (American) language? That Claude felt he "loved" a servant he was having a dalliance so much that he would agree to silence her in part out of jealousy? How Dr. McConnell, a drunk, disgraced doctor, uses such modern methods of criminology?
Not a terrible read, but just not for me.