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A review by adelaidemetzger_robotprophet
Murder Theory by Andrew Mayne
4.0
Spoiler-Free Review
Oh my God.
I think I need some emotional help here!
So, I thought this was the final book. I don’t remember how or where but I thought I read somewhere that this was “…Dr. Theo Cray’s final case...” This means I was mourning Theo and the series as a whole wishing it didn’t have to end, going through the five stages of grief until in the final third of the book I had come to accept that this was, indeed, the end.
And then the cliffhanger happened.
I was a little confused at first but then the blow hit me and I was shook at how Andrew Mayne could end a trilogy that way.
…
…
And then Goodreads shows that there is going to be another book.
I’m surprised and happy and terrified because what I didn’t get in this book, I think I may very well get in the next one.
Gah! I want to spoil so bad, but that cliffhanger, yo. Let’s just say I thought something was going to happen to someone in Murder Theory and the last half of the book would be trying to solve that something that had happened. But it didn’t and I was left the usual bored during most of the second act during the extensively detailed investigation portion of the book. This happened last time for me but my dull feelings were intensified this time around as the culprit behind the killings was more of a Moriarty to Theo instead of being the actual killer like in the first two books.
Yes, this book dealt with a “killer” who was intellectually dangerous as opposed to physically—which is something Theo Cray hasn’t faced yet. But I’m more into the haunting danger of slasher-thriller. But that’s just me.
AND THEN THAT CLIFFHANGER HAPPENED!!!
Combined with my immediate surprise after that the series was continuing I’m just overwhelmed with an array of complex emotions. In Dark Pattern, the next book, Theo is in the kind of danger he can’t solve or get himself out of this time WHILE chasing another killer.
I don’t know what to do. I do not KNOW WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW.
The only thing to do is buy the next book and read it, I guess. I’m really, REALLY afraid of what gets him to that point in the next book and I hope that it also isn’t the final book for Theo Cray. And if it is I’m just happy I got to see my favorite naturalist get to go through one more story.
Oh my God.
I think I need some emotional help here!
So, I thought this was the final book. I don’t remember how or where but I thought I read somewhere that this was “…Dr. Theo Cray’s final case...” This means I was mourning Theo and the series as a whole wishing it didn’t have to end, going through the five stages of grief until in the final third of the book I had come to accept that this was, indeed, the end.
And then the cliffhanger happened.
I was a little confused at first but then the blow hit me and I was shook at how Andrew Mayne could end a trilogy that way.
…
…
And then Goodreads shows that there is going to be another book.
I’m surprised and happy and terrified because what I didn’t get in this book, I think I may very well get in the next one.
Gah! I want to spoil so bad, but that cliffhanger, yo. Let’s just say I thought something was going to happen to someone in Murder Theory and the last half of the book would be trying to solve that something that had happened. But it didn’t and I was left the usual bored during most of the second act during the extensively detailed investigation portion of the book. This happened last time for me but my dull feelings were intensified this time around as the culprit behind the killings was more of a Moriarty to Theo instead of being the actual killer like in the first two books.
Yes, this book dealt with a “killer” who was intellectually dangerous as opposed to physically—which is something Theo Cray hasn’t faced yet. But I’m more into the haunting danger of slasher-thriller. But that’s just me.
AND THEN THAT CLIFFHANGER HAPPENED!!!
Combined with my immediate surprise after that the series was continuing I’m just overwhelmed with an array of complex emotions. In Dark Pattern, the next book, Theo is in the kind of danger he can’t solve or get himself out of this time WHILE chasing another killer.
I don’t know what to do. I do not KNOW WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW.
The only thing to do is buy the next book and read it, I guess. I’m really, REALLY afraid of what gets him to that point in the next book and I hope that it also isn’t the final book for Theo Cray. And if it is I’m just happy I got to see my favorite naturalist get to go through one more story.