Antique Tragedy: A British Cozy Murder Mystery with a Female Amateur Sleuth (A Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery Book 5)
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I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. When I picked this book up for review, I realized, I have enough time to read all the other books before that as well, so this review is not only about this particular book but the entire series so far. In general, I like the series and it certainly improved with time. In the first books, I could forsee everything that would happen and sometimes even be frustrated, because it would need 10 more chapters, until it actually happened. Also, some repetitive themes were overdone, but tamed down significantly (e.g. Keya's clumsiness, in the first books; she practically couldn't move without kicking something down.) But my major complaint is about the characters. At some point in the books, there was a kiss and I realized I don't care for the characters at all. I don't have a picture for any of them in my head and the fact, that half of them are always anounced with their family name made it worse, because it enhanced the feeling of distance and know knowing them. That has improved in this book. I still don't have a good feeling for the characters, but it's getting slowly better. Most of the chars are reduced to one or two characteristics, which are repeated in each book, and I don't even have a connection to the main char. I absolutely like the stories and there is clearly a character development, especially since the end of book 4. Newly introduced characters are fun and I would say, for me, Edith and Ethel have more substance, than someone like George or even Gilly. As for this book in particular, I thought the resolution of the first murder was very weak. It suddenly came to her and then the quick gathering of half-assed evidence. At least it's acknowledged and the police struggled with physical evidence. But the rest around it was interesting and we are left with unsolved questions and cases for the first time in this series. It's hard, to write a cozy mystery series in which a normal person suddenly sees deaths left and right, so sometimes they tend to get a bit repetitive or forced, but that's the nature of this genre. But since the cases are mostly nicely explained and interesting to read, I don't mind and certainly will continue reading the series.
Beiträge
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. When I picked this book up for review, I realized, I have enough time to read all the other books before that as well, so this review is not only about this particular book but the entire series so far. In general, I like the series and it certainly improved with time. In the first books, I could forsee everything that would happen and sometimes even be frustrated, because it would need 10 more chapters, until it actually happened. Also, some repetitive themes were overdone, but tamed down significantly (e.g. Keya's clumsiness, in the first books; she practically couldn't move without kicking something down.) But my major complaint is about the characters. At some point in the books, there was a kiss and I realized I don't care for the characters at all. I don't have a picture for any of them in my head and the fact, that half of them are always anounced with their family name made it worse, because it enhanced the feeling of distance and know knowing them. That has improved in this book. I still don't have a good feeling for the characters, but it's getting slowly better. Most of the chars are reduced to one or two characteristics, which are repeated in each book, and I don't even have a connection to the main char. I absolutely like the stories and there is clearly a character development, especially since the end of book 4. Newly introduced characters are fun and I would say, for me, Edith and Ethel have more substance, than someone like George or even Gilly. As for this book in particular, I thought the resolution of the first murder was very weak. It suddenly came to her and then the quick gathering of half-assed evidence. At least it's acknowledged and the police struggled with physical evidence. But the rest around it was interesting and we are left with unsolved questions and cases for the first time in this series. It's hard, to write a cozy mystery series in which a normal person suddenly sees deaths left and right, so sometimes they tend to get a bit repetitive or forced, but that's the nature of this genre. But since the cases are mostly nicely explained and interesting to read, I don't mind and certainly will continue reading the series.