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ramblingreadingrose 's review for:
Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wow!!
After reading the first book in the Susan Ryland series, Magpie Murders and giving that book 5 stars, I had such high expectations! But ultimately, I don’t believe it was quite as good.
Pros
I love our narrator Susan, she is smart, sharp, and I love how we get to walk through her mind as she’s figuring out and solving these mysterious murders.
The settings, an old British castle or the island of Crete, Anthony Horowitz really makes the atmosphere come alive!
I love some the authors takes on reading and books in general… He has a way of phrasing things that truly get at the heart of what it means to be “reader”.
Cons
While I truly do love some of the mysterious, whodunnit parts….. at least in this book it seems like we hardly got any clues until the very end, maybe the last 30 or 40 pages… Wish we could’ve had a few more Easter eggs/clues.
The reveal felt a little too on the nose.
Maybe this is just a me thing, but in both this book and the last I found myself loving the small town mysteries FAR more than the modern day ones!! I wish I could have a whole series just about Atticus Pund going about solving crime/mysteries in rural 1950s England…That would be truly wonderful!!!
PS the audiobook is wonderful 👍🏻
Cawpile 6.71
After reading the first book in the Susan Ryland series, Magpie Murders and giving that book 5 stars, I had such high expectations! But ultimately, I don’t believe it was quite as good.
Pros
I love our narrator Susan, she is smart, sharp, and I love how we get to walk through her mind as she’s figuring out and solving these mysterious murders.
The settings, an old British castle or the island of Crete, Anthony Horowitz really makes the atmosphere come alive!
I love some the authors takes on reading and books in general… He has a way of phrasing things that truly get at the heart of what it means to be “reader”.
Cons
While I truly do love some of the mysterious, whodunnit parts….. at least in this book it seems like we hardly got any clues until the very end, maybe the last 30 or 40 pages… Wish we could’ve had a few more Easter eggs/clues.
The reveal felt a little too on the nose.
Maybe this is just a me thing, but in both this book and the last I found myself loving the small town mysteries FAR more than the modern day ones!! I wish I could have a whole series just about Atticus Pund going about solving crime/mysteries in rural 1950s England…That would be truly wonderful!!!
PS the audiobook is wonderful 👍🏻
Cawpile 6.71