ritchiesreads 's review for:

THE BRITTANY MURDERS by Anne Penketh

2.0

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I went into this book hoping for a cozy murder mystery to read by the fire on a cold winter day. However, the murder mystery was almost being camouflaged by everything else going on in the book. It felt like there were several overlapping but disjointed subplots (family, political, social, environmental, etc) that I didn’t have thoroughly worked out details regarding. The story also reads almost as a retelling after the fact (but not quite), i think writing it from a point of view where we were experiencing it with the characters and being brought along and shown rather than just told later would have helped me to connect to the underlying story and murder mystery plot a bit easier. This book had really strong potential but ultimately was not for me. 

I received a free digital advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review of this book. Thank you to @netgalley and Joffe Books for the advanced copy and the opportunity to review this title.