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tardislibrarian 's review for:
Except the Dying
by Maureen Jennings
Honestly, I'm a huge fan of the television series and was more than excited to find out that it had been based off of a book series. Really, who wouldn't be excited that something they adore was already a book; more bits that weren't in the show is what excites me.
The book was rather good, being set in 1895 Toronto and revolves mainly around Detective William Murdoch and his cases. I'm already a huge fan of things being set during this time period, and to find something set in Toronto was brilliant.
I only had occasional issues with the book--a few lines that I had to re-read before I either understood or finally gave up on, and a few bits were punctuation were missing (quotation marks, mostly). As much as those types of things bother the living hell out of me, the book was a good read over all.
I really hadn't guessed who the murderer of Alice Black and Theresa Laporte; the story had led me to believe it was one person and was a bit surprised to see that it was someone completely different who hadn't actually been talked about in the story until the last couple of chapters, really.
Overall, I liked it enough to read on with the series! :)
The book was rather good, being set in 1895 Toronto and revolves mainly around Detective William Murdoch and his cases. I'm already a huge fan of things being set during this time period, and to find something set in Toronto was brilliant.
I only had occasional issues with the book--a few lines that I had to re-read before I either understood or finally gave up on, and a few bits were punctuation were missing (quotation marks, mostly). As much as those types of things bother the living hell out of me, the book was a good read over all.
I really hadn't guessed who the murderer of Alice Black and Theresa Laporte; the story had led me to believe it was one person and was a bit surprised to see that it was someone completely different who hadn't actually been talked about in the story until the last couple of chapters, really.
Overall, I liked it enough to read on with the series! :)