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baronessekat ([personal profile] baronessekat) wrote2017-08-14 01:11 pm

2017 reading challenge: a book with a month or day of the week in the title

The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery, #1)The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I neither liked nor disliked this book. It was just OK for me. The writing was good and the reader talented, but it just didn't pull me in. Perhaps if I had read the previous works of this author, I might have liked it more, but as it was, I had no knowledge of the author or the fact that she had written an entire other series of books set just before this one.

As far as the mystery goes, I pretty much figure out who the killer was within a chapter or two of them being introduced. That doesn't mean it was a bad story, just that if you have read murder mysteries, there were flags early on.

I can't say that I will continue in this series, but if the next one crosses my path, I won't turn away from it.



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