mommasaystoread 's review for:

Hid from Our Eyes: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery by Julia Spencer-Fleming

3.0

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I admit that I'm late to the game where this series is concerned, but I didn't feel too slighted in terms of figuring out the characters. I suppose I would've had a little more context as to why the characters acted in a certain way or did certain things, but I saw no reason that this book couldn't stand alone. So, I'm not sure if the other books in the series are the same, but this one seemed awfully busy to me. It wasn't so much the mystery - I really liked the premise of that, and the outcome was interesting. Not believable, but interesting. It was everything else that was so busy, as in the personal lives of our main characters. There was so much drama with Clare that it distracted from the mystery. In the end, the story was okay, but it wasn't enough to make me want to explore the earlier books in the series.